Overview: Draws on a comprehensive data set to examine the literary field.Considers the shifting relationship between gender and power in publishing.Incorporates interviews from authors, editors, critics, and p.Gender and Prestige in Literature: Contemporary Australian Book Culture. explores the relationship between gender, power, reputation and book publishing’s consecratory institutions in the Australian literary field from 1965-2015. Focusing on book reviews, literary festivals and literary prizes, this work analyses the ways in which these institutions exist in an increasingly cooperative
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