Over the past half a century, Australian women’s art has gone from the margins to the mainstream. A new book mapping this story is a flawed, colourful kaleidoscope.
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A new exhibition at Flinders University Art Gallery highlights Barbara Hanrahan’s sensory spirit, celebrating nature and unbinding social constriction.
Undocumented for decades, black South African feminists are increasingly visible. The essays in Surfacing present 22 leading thinkers.
Her 1975 novel demonstrated a far more radical feminism than was common in Africa and the Arab world – a precursor of the #MenAreTrash anger of today.
A new show by indie performer Mish Grigor, with Aphids Theatre, explores all the exit opportunities that are available to us - and some doors that are better left closed.
As strippers take another turn around the pole in Hustlers, a look at Hollywood history shows we like to watch.
A collaborative Melbourne exhibition traces the concerns of women since the 1970s.
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Joanna Mendelssohn is a Friend of The Conversation.Honorary (Senior Fellow) School of Culture and Communication University of Melbourne. Editor in Chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Senior Industry Fellow, RMIT University
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Professor of Gender Studies, University of the Western Cape
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Researcher, The Australian Centre, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Research Professor, UniSA Creative, University of South Australia, University of South Australia
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Professor, University of Zululand
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Associate Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies and African Studies, Penn State
