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    Master Class, by David Pownall
    TRIGG, STEPHANIE (Coghill, 1987)
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    Three Sisters, by Anton Chekhov
    TRIGG, STEPHANIE (Coghill, 1988)
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    The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, by Brian Moore
    TRIGG, STEPHANIE (Coghill, 1987)
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    Amy’s Children, by Olga Masters
    TRIGG, STEPHANIE (Coghill, 1989)
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    The marks of want and care
    Lee, Jenny (McPhee-Gribble, 1988)
    It is not true that time heals all wounds. Some wounds linger on until the wounded die and their pain is forgotten. A generation of Australians harboured searing memories of the 1890s depression - of hunger, cold, bewilderment, humiliation and fear. But they are gone now, and their memories with them. If the depression is remembered at all, it is for the bank crashes of 1893, which produced panic among the propertied class. The working people and the unemployed who felt the chill most severely left few written records. Here, as in so many other areas of Australian life, the privilege of being remembered, being included in ‘history’, has been open to only a few. But why would anyone want to re-live the sufferings of a dead generation? Perhaps because so many of the institutions we take for granted began as attempts to do something about the effects of the 1890s crisis. Federation, state welfare, arbitration and the rise of the Labor Party all date back to that time. The crisis also ushered in profound changes in family life. As earlier chapters have discussed, the 1890s marked the beginning of the trend towards smaller families, with all that it implies for the way that people organize their lives. If the memory of the 1890s has gone, its legacy is still with us.
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    The apron-strings of empire
    Lee, Jenny (McPhee Gribble, 1988)
    Historical discussion of Australia's relationship with Britain has generally concentrated on asking who won out. Was Australia, as Humphrey McQueen and others have argued, a 'willing, often over-anxious partner' in the British imperial endeavour, or was it a victim of British exploitation, as radical-nationalist writers have long maintained? Clearly the answers to these questions depend on the questioner's own set of values. There is plenty of evidence to support either case. But we also have to query whether the question is worth asking in the first place.
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    The subject of the law
    FROW, JOHN (Local Consumption Publications, 1987)
    This paper is part of a larger piece of work on juridical discourse in which I try to elaborate a general description of the discursive and interdiscursive structures of the law and to specify some of the central doctrinal categories of contemporary law. The category of legal subject has an exemplary status in such a project for a number of reasons: it is constructed, in historically differential ways, through a diversity of overlapping positions in legal and para-legal practices and languages; it covers both human and non-human entities; it. is formed in direct relation to the juridical/economic concept of property; and it is closely linked, as both foundation and effect, to the philosophical category of subject. My account here is necessarily cursory, but it should be apparent that it has implications, in part, for the broader debate that has taken place in recent years around the concept of the subject.
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    A semiotics of the token economy
    FROW, JOHN (Local Consumption Publications, 1985)
    Too hasty a reading of Donzelot and Castel would suggest that their analysis can be directly applied to Australia. In at least one important respect this is not the case. The most powerful component of the Australian psy-complex is not psychoanalysis but behavioural psychology, an intellectual system at once grossly banal and extraordinarily influential as the basis of techniques of surveillance (and self-surveillance) and social control. It is the virtually uncontested orthodoxy in tertiary institutions and in professional and paraprofessional practice. In this paper I examine a behaviour modification programme used in a Perth prison (a 'treatment and research centre') for adolescent girls.
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    Reading as system and as practice
    FROW, JOHN (Cambridge University Press, 1983)
    My concern in this paper is with the elaboration of a Marxist theory of reading, and this reminder of the many and often contradictory roles of the god is intended to serve as a warning against the confusion of determinacy with determinism or the setting of interpretative sanctions.