Reviews

• Published in: Journal of Australian Studies: Australian masculinities 1998, Vol.22 (56), p.180-195
• Main Authors: Murrie, Linzi, Moore, Clive, Bythell, Duncan, Campbell, Malcolm, Bolton, Geoffrey, Warhurst, John, Brady, Veronica, Dale, Leigh, Kelly, Veronica, Bellear, Lisa
• Format: Review
• Language: English
• ISSN: 1444-3058; 1835-6419
• DOI: 10.1080/14443059809387372

Don Edgar, Men, Mateship, Marriage, HarperCollins Publishers, 1997, pp xvi+367, $17.95 pb. John Webb, Junk Male: Reflections on Australian Masculinity, HarperCollins Publishers, 1997, pp 260, $17.95 pb. Dennis Altman, Defying Gravity: A Political Life, Allen & Unwin, 1997, pp 265, $19.95 pb. Stephen Garton, The Cost of War. Australians Return, Oxford University Press, 1996, pp 298, $44.95 hc. T.P. Boland, Thomas Carr: Archbishop of Melbourne, Unversity of Queensland Press, 1997, pp. vi+495, $39.95, hc. Margaret Glass, Charles Cameron Kingston, Melbourne University Press, 1997, pp 300, $34.95. Gough Whitlam, Abiding Interests, University of Queensland Press, 1997, pp 339, $29.95 pb. Leigh Dale, The English Men: Professing Literature in Australian Universities, Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 1997, pp 242, $24.95 pb ; and A.G. Evans, Fanatic Heart: a Life of John Boyle O'Reilly University of Western Australia Press, 1997, pp 280, $34.95 pb, $49.95 hc. David Foster, The Ballad of Erinungarah, Vintage, 1996, pp 202, $16.95 pb; David Foster, The Glade within the Grove, Vintage, 1996, pp xxxix + 431, $17.95 pb. Stephen Knight, Continent of Mystery: A Thematic History of Australian Crime Fiction, Melbourne University Press, 1997 pp 236, $24.95 pb. Alexis Wright, Plains of Promise, University of Queensland Press, 1997, pp 304, $17.95 pb.