Rebellious Daughters
Good daughters hold their tongues, obey their elders and let their families determine their destiny. Rebellious daughters are just the opposite.
In Rebellious Daughters, some of Australia’s most talented female writers share intimate and touching stories of rebellion and independence as they defy the expectations of parents and society to find their place in the world.
Powerful, funny and poignant, these stories explore everything from getting caught in seedy nightclubs to lifelong family conflicts and marrying too young. Beautifully written, profoundly honest and always relatable, every story is a unique retelling that celebrates the rebellious daughter within us all.
Not every woman is a mother, grandmother, aunty or sister – but all women are daughters.
Rebellious Daughters contributors: Jane Caro, Jamila Rizvi, Susan Wyndham, Rebecca Starford, Marion Halligan, Amra Pajalic, Jo Case, Leah Kaminsky, Michelle Law, Caroline Baum, Rochelle Siemienowicz, Nicola Redhouse, Krissy Kneen, Silvia Kwon and Eliza-Jane Henry-Jones.
Published by Ventura Press 2016
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In Rebellious Daughters, some of Australia’s most talented female writers share intimate and touching stories of rebellion and independence as they defy the expectations of parents and society to find their place in the world.
Powerful, funny and poignant, these stories explore everything from getting caught in seedy nightclubs to lifelong family conflicts and marrying too young. Beautifully written, profoundly honest and always relatable, every story is a unique retelling that celebrates the rebellious daughter within us all.
Not every woman is a mother, grandmother, aunty or sister – but all women are daughters.
Rebellious Daughters contributors: Jane Caro, Jamila Rizvi, Susan Wyndham, Rebecca Starford, Marion Halligan, Amra Pajalic, Jo Case, Leah Kaminsky, Michelle Law, Caroline Baum, Rochelle Siemienowicz, Nicola Redhouse, Krissy Kneen, Silvia Kwon and Eliza-Jane Henry-Jones.
Published by Ventura Press 2016
Buy a copy:
Readings bookstore
Amazon Kindle
Amazon Paperback
Reviews
Rebellious Daughters: women turn backs on ‘good girl’ image"Rebellious Daughters tells important stories about women and girls who resist the ‘‘good girl image, and the rebellion this correlates to in others.Starford, in Who Owns My Story?, posits that women “have never really had any ownership of history, and by virtue of that, any ownership of our stories. As women writers, I believe we are still struggling for cultural legitimacy.”
This is an anthology that locates women in a social landscape that privileges their narrative and their history in relation to others. While the struggle for cultural legitimacy in literature endures, in this anthology Katsonis and Kofman give women an individual and collective ownership of their own stories."
Sarah Dempster, The Australian
Rebellious Daughters review: What we learned from giving the parents a hard time
"For several of the writers such as Leah Kaminsky, Maria Katsonis, Silvia Kwon, Michelle Law and Amra Pajalic, rebellion is fuelled by the cultural disconnect between themselves and their migrant parents. And for others, such as Leah Kaminsky, rebellion is compounded yet again, when parents become ill or dependant. The fallout from rebellion can be unpredictable but for the editors ofRebellious Daughters the topic has proved to be fertile ground."
By Dianne Dempsey, The Sydney Morning Herald
This is an anthology that locates women in a social landscape that privileges their narrative and their history in relation to others. While the struggle for cultural legitimacy in literature endures, in this anthology Katsonis and Kofman give women an individual and collective ownership of their own stories."
Sarah Dempster, The Australian
Rebellious Daughters review: What we learned from giving the parents a hard time
"For several of the writers such as Leah Kaminsky, Maria Katsonis, Silvia Kwon, Michelle Law and Amra Pajalic, rebellion is fuelled by the cultural disconnect between themselves and their migrant parents. And for others, such as Leah Kaminsky, rebellion is compounded yet again, when parents become ill or dependant. The fallout from rebellion can be unpredictable but for the editors ofRebellious Daughters the topic has proved to be fertile ground."
By Dianne Dempsey, The Sydney Morning Herald