Westerly 34:4

Contents:

Essay

E. Ann Kaplan Discourses of the Mother in Postmodern Film and Culture
Delys Bird "Mother, I won't never go drovin'": Motherhood in Australian Narrative*
Kieran Dolin Mater Dolorosa: War and Motherhood in Lucinda Brayford
Jennifer Strauss Elegies for Mothers: Reflections on Gwen Hardwood's "Mother Who Gave Me Life" and Les Murray's "Three Poems in Memory of My Mother"
Brenda Walker "Sweetest and Best in Womanhood"? Equivocal Representations of Maternity in Australian Women's Fiction
Sue Rowley Inside the Deserted Hut: The Representation of Motherhood in Bush Mythology
Joan Kirkby Barbara Baynton: An Australian Jocasta

Review

Alan Urquhart A review of WORDHORD: A Critical Selection of Contemporary Western Australian Poetry
Nadine Myatt A review of Nicci Gerard's Into the Mainstream: How Feminism Has Changed Women's Writing
Ailsa G. Thomson Zainu’ddin A review of Patricia Crawford and Myrna Tonkinson's The Missing Chapters: Women Staff at the University of Western Australia
Terri-ann White A review of David Brooks and Brenda Walker's Poetry and Gender

Creative Nonfiction

Drusilla Modjeska Extract from: Poppy: The Evidence*

Poetry

Marion Campbell Time Inside
Katherine Gallagher Last Afternoon
Katherine Gallagher September Afternoon, Jubilee Lake
Mary Dilworth The Birth
Jan Kemp Chagall Windows, Fraumünster, Zürich
Agnes Lam My Cerebral Child
Wong Phui Nam Prettiest of our Cousins
Jennifer Strauss Son and Moon: Scenes from Maternal Life
Jennie Fraine Crayon Communications
Joan Bartlett Migrant Women Circa 1857

Fiction

Marion Campbell The Feral Queen
Carmel Bird The Breast of the Black Madonna
Julie Lewis Queen Bee
Elizabeth Jolley My Mother's Visit
Margaret Packham Hargrave Small Frame
Lorraine Bennett Victa
Margo Daly The Carnival of Animals
Sari Hosie Chamber Music
Sari Hosie Aquamarine and the Real Sea