Playing with Dolls: Masculinity and Desire in Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

Authors

  • Catherine Pratt The University of New South Wales, ADFA

Keywords:

Ray Lawler, drama, masculinity, femininity

Abstract

The paper argues that underlying the national narrative of the Doll is a compulsion to define and fix masculinity, femininity and heterosexuality.

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Published

2013-02-16

Issue

1995: Crossing Lines: Formations of Australian Culture

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Playing with Dolls: Masculinity and Desire in Summer of the Seventeenth Doll. (2013). Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 84-88. https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/JASAL/article/view/9957