Along the Faultlines : Sex, Race and Nation in Australian Women's Writing Book

	Acknowledgements
	Introduction
Pt. I	The Sexual Politics of Romantic Fiction	1
1	Ada Cambridge and the female literary tradition	3
2	Gender and genre in Barbara Baynton's Human Toll	15
3	'Temper, romantic; bias, offensively feminine': Australian women writers and literary nationalism	27
4	Rewriting romance: the literary, sexual and cultural politics of women's fiction in the 1890s	36
5	The romance of experience: the early twentieth century	51
Pt. II	Feminist Journalism and the Politics of Nationhood	69
6	Louisa Lawson, Miles Franklin and feminist writing	71
7	Feminism and socialism: The Worker in the 1890s	86
8	'Mothers of the race' or 'working for the army'? Women and the Worker, 1908-1931	103
Pt. III	Race and Nation in Women's Writing	119
9	'Wives and mothers like ourselves, poor remnants of a dying race': Aborigines in colonial women's writing	121
10	Mary Gilmore's and Katharine Prichard's representations of Aborigines	135
11	'My dear fellow Australians': women addressing the nation	153
	Concluding on a question: Are we postcolonial yet?	166
	Selected bibliography	170
	Index	182