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Monday, June 22, 2015

The literary pilgrimage: from Brontëites to TwiHards

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Fan tributes on Oscar Wilde's tomb. Chrissy Hunt/Flickr In response to the post below, I spoke with Michael Mackenzie on RN Afternoo...
Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Talking Princess Culture on Life Matters, Radio National

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To coincide with the release of Disney's new Cinderella film, I was a guest on Radio National's 'Life Matters' last Frida...
Tuesday, March 17, 2015

The 'Hole' in the Pantry Story: Should Penguin have Validated Belle Gibson's Cancer Claims?

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Would it ever be responsible to legitimise the story that someone “healed themselves” of cancer through diet?  Jan Hallbæck Australia is...
Thursday, February 19, 2015

To Kill a Mockingbird, My Brilliant Career and long-lost 'sequels'

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Harper Lee By now there can be few people who don’t know Harper Lee’s supposedly long-lost manuscript, Go Set a Watchman, will be publis...
Monday, December 29, 2014

The ‘death’ of J. K. Rowling: Why it doesn’t matter what she has to say about Harry Potter

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The invisible diversity of Harry Potter: Joya Wu/Flickr          Who owns a story? When an author writes a book, are the words on the pa...
Monday, December 8, 2014

Barbie for Boys? The Gendered Tyranny of the Toy Store

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“I didn’t encourage my daughter to play with Barbie dolls and dress up in flouncy fairy costumes, but she just gravitated toward them.” ...
Monday, September 1, 2014

'Offensiveness' and children’s books: censoring ‘slut’ from a Roald Dahl classic

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A collection of Roald Dahl books I’m fixated on scanning Aldi’s general merchandise offerings in its weekly catalogue. Fro...