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Published 18-06-2019
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Meanjin Vol 78, No 2

Jonathan Green

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Published 18-06-2019
ISBN 9780522875690
Pages 204
Subjects Literary essays
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Essays, memoir, fiction and poetry from Australia's finest writers.

‘I’ve been trying to decide which of my encounters with doctors, the ones from the early days of my illness, was the most mortifying, the most frustrating, the most burdened with assumptions about young women and their bodies and brains…’ In the lead essay for the Winter issue of Meanjin, titled The Woman is Hysterical, author Fiona Wright argues that it’s high time we trusted women to know their own bodies and minds and that ‘when women speak, is it important to actually listen.’

About The Author

Meanjin editor Jonathan Green has been an editor, writer, commentator and broadcaster in a 40-year career as a journalist, beginning with a cadetship at The Canberra Times and taking in various Australian dailies: the Melbourne Herald, The Herald Sun, the Sunday Herald, The Sunday Age and 15 years at The Age. Jonathan left The Age…