Where are the Great Women? A feminist analysis of Australian political biographies

Author/editor: Blair Williams
Year published: 2021
Volume no.: 5

Abstract

BLAIR WILLIAMS

As women have become more visible in the Australian political sphere, the volume of writing about their lives, careers and experiences has also increased. This has brought to light certain challenges and shortcomings, as well as enduring discursive biases in the existing literature. Political history, for example, and especially political biography, has generally ‘privileged the political activities of men and masculine political institutions’, telling the stories of so-called Great Men while excluding those who do not traditionally belong to this cohort.

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