Carole Ferrier is an Australian feminist academic. She is

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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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, 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

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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:

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2004. (with Raymond Evans) * ''Gender, Politics and Fiction: 20th Century Australian Women's Novels''. St Lucia: UQP, 1992. * ''Point of Departure: The Autobiography of

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''. 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:

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, 1995.

Criticism

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

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of Feyerabend and

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, the

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work of Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze into an "epistemic certainty".

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