Carole Ferrier is an Australian feminist academic. She is

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in English at the School of English, Media Studies and Art History at the

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. She has many published works about feminism,

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, literature and culture. She has been the editor of the

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academic journal ''

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'' since its inception in 1975.

Early life

Ferrier was awarded a

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Degree with

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, and a

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, at the

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. The title of her doctoral thesis was ''The earlier poetry of D. H. Lawrence: a variorum text, comprising all extant incunabula and published poems up to and including the year 1919''. Ferrier helped establish the International Socialist Tendency in Australia in the 1970s, and was a prominent activist in various democratic rights struggles in Queensland from the 1970s.

Academic work

Ferrier has lectured in English at the University of Queensland since 1973. She is currently Professor of Literature and Women's Studies at the School of Communication and Arts at the University of Queensland. Ferrier is also the Director of the Women, Gender, Culture and Social Change Research Group at the University of Queensland, a former president of the Australian Women's Studies Association and editor of ''Hecate'' and the ''Australian Women's Book Review''. Professor Carole Ferrier
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Publications and editorial work

Amongst her many other published works, Ferrier has authored ''Jean Devanny: Romantic Revolutionary'' (

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, 1999). She has also edited * ''Hecate: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Women's Liberation'' (as foundation editor])Hecate
/ref> * ''Radical Brisbane: An Unruly History''. Melbourne: Vulgar Press 2004. (with Raymond Evans) * ''Gender, Politics and Fiction: 20th Century Australian Women's Novels''. St Lucia: UQP, 1992. * ''Point of Departure: The Autobiography of Jean Devanny''. St Lucia: UQP, 1986. * ''As Good as a Yarn With You: Letters Between Franklin, Prichard, Devanny, Barnard, Eldershaw and Dark.'' Sydney:

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, 1994. * ''

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: A Reader.'' London: Women's Press, 1995.

Criticism

Ferrier's 1992 book ''Gender, Politics and Fiction'' was criticised as using orthodox

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doctrine, the

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and

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, the

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work of

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and

Gilles Deleuze Gilles Louis René Deleuze (18 January 1925 – 4 November 1995) was a French philosopher who, from the early 1950s until his death in 1995, wrote on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. His most popular works were the two volumes o ...

into an "epistemic certainty".

References

External links

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