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Article: The Girl Who Met Simone de Beauvoir in Brisbane, or, Must We Burn Beauvoir?
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- Hecate
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- May 1, 2000
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I'm currently researching the representation of histories of the second wave Australian women's movement, for example, in novels, magazines, and in academic feminist histories. And so far, the stories being told are surprisingly gloomy. What I'd like to do here is to work through these questions of what I see as a struggle for feminist memory or memories, in terms of Simone de Beauvoir's work, Beauvoir as icon, and Australian feminism. That is, as the title of my paper suggests, I'm going to use a fairly intertextual mode, or a number of (inter)textual allusions to work through why occasions like this, celebrating not just commemorating The Second Sex, [1] are ...