Patriarchal Attitudes by Eva Figes review
Eva Figes argues nurture rather than nature shapes gender traits and the male view of women is a man made myth. The book links patriarchy to history from Rousseau to Freud and condemns marriage as a trap while calling for genuine female economic independence. It is an angry, rigorous survey of ideas that challenges liberal readers to rethink gender order.
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Eva Figes
Insead
Eve
God
Adam
Lilliath
Lill
Jove
Samson
John Stuart Mill
Johnson
Addison
Defoe
Rousseau
Freud
Illasion
Beaver
Dorothy Hewett
J. R. Rowland
Thomas W. Shapcott
Margaret Lewis
Andrew Taylor
Peter Skrzynecki
Robert Speaight
Australia
Mannix
Santamaria
Henry VIII
Chardin
Belloc
Marby
Chambertine
Ronald Searle
Kildare Dobbs
Searle
Dobson Books Ltd
Hudson's Bay Company
Dobbs
Canada
Idea in the prop box The Property Basket review
A review of Robert Speaight's memoir The Property Basket notes the surge in memoir writing and suggests the author, an English gentleman with a discreet background, offers little sensational disclosure. The piece compares the work’s modest privacy to prop box secrecy in theater.
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Robert Speaight
British Punt School
Oxford College
London Club
Palace Theatre
Sydney
Thomas More
Speaight
Hall's Poetic Prism Selects New Voices in 1970 Australia
Rodney Hall curates a 1970 Australian Poetry anthology that emphasizes youth, free verse, and introspective themes. The volume broadens with a quarter new poets, while preserving familiar names, and traces a mood of tragedy, violence, and existential reflection across contemporary verse.
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Vivian Smith
Douglas Stewart
Ron McCuaig
Vincent Buckley
Dorothy Auchterlonie
A. D. Hope
Leonie Kramer
Rodney
Francia Webb
Therese
Rodney Hall
Bruce Beaver
Pictorial history of Australians at War reviewed
Paul Hamlyn presents a fast paced pictorial history of Australian soldiers from NSW Corps days to Vietnam. The five writer team offers a juvenile but readable survey, famed for 600 photographs and reproductions. The Eureka Stockade portrayal hints at bias, but later images convey events with some candor.
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Paul Hamlyn
NSW Corps
The Heights of Zer Vos and No Medals for Aphrodite review
A mixed wartime literary pair sees Colin Forbes craft a devious globe trotter plot around Mount Zer Vos and a British German intelligence clash aboard a Istanbul ferry. Richard Beilby’s tale leans on a gritty Greek retreat through Thermopylae with vivid battlefield descriptions and a controversial subplot involving a weary Australian soldier.
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Zervos
Colin Forbes
Collins
Aphrodite
Richard Beilby
Angus and Robertson
Istanbul
Gulf of Zervos
Britain
Germany
Mount Zervos
Montesino
Macomber
Richard
Thermopylae
Lyndon Dadswell
Greece
Varius Subters
Athens
Freddie
The Honours Board by Pamela Hansford Johnson review
A closed society novel set in Downs Park a boys preparatory school in southern England. The story follows headmaster Cyril Amnick and devoted Grace as staff navigate tensions secrecy and potential extinction amid a cast of flawed teachers and competing plots. Johnson’s technical skill and nuanced narration sustain multiple interlinked strands and reveal the drama within a self contained academic world.
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Pamela Hansford Johnson
South
England
Downs Park
Cyril Amnick
Onemy
Pegu
Canberra leasehold system origins and land tenancy realities
The text discusses the Canberra leasehold origin and life, aiming to reveal realities behind land tenancy. It also mentions a notice about stationery for new shorthand courses at the technical college and notes a stock of workshop and slab materials across branches, with references to primary and secondary schooling.
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Canberra
Technical College
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Faber and Faber
By JO Gibson
Collins and Harvill
Hall’s
Angus & Robertson
Robert D. FitzGerald
Judith Wright
Les Murray
Geoffrey Lehmann
Queensland
John Manifold
Ukraine
Wilhelm Hiener
Rasputin
Moscow
Rosemary Dobson
Peter Willett
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Leonard Ward
Queanbeyan
Crawford Street
Brian Palfrey
the Honours Board
Pamela Hantsford
Macmillan
Grace
Cyril Annick
Massinger
Miss Johnson
UT Et al
Frank Brennan
Daltens
Garmees Place
Dickson - Jamison Centre
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