BRIGID BROPHY [electronic resource] : avant-garde writer, critic, activist / edited by Richard Canning and Gerri Kember.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This book explores all aspects of Brophy's literary career, alongside contributions on animal rights, vegetarianism, anti-vivisectionism, humanism, feminism and sexual politics, not only celebrating Brophy's eclectic achievements but fully reflecting them.

List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction, Richard Canning; 1. Embodying the Fragments: A Reflection on the Reluctant Auto-Biography of Brigid Brophy, Phoebe Blatton; 2. Brigid Brophy's Paradoxical World of Childhood, Michael Bronski; 3. Introduction to 'The Librarian and the Novel', John Dixon; 4. The Librarian and the Novel: A Writer's View, Brigid Brophy; 5. Penetrating (the) Prancing Novelist, Richard Canning; 6. 'Shavian that she was', John Dixon; 7. 'Il faut que je vive': Brigid Brophy and Animal Rights, Gary Francione; 8. Brigid Brophy's Phenomenology of Sex in Flesh and The Snow Ball, Jonathan Gibbs; 9. Letter to Brigid, Rodney Hill; 10. Encoding Love: Hidden Correspondence in the Fiction of Brigid Brophy and Iris Murdoch, Miles Leeson; 11. Heads and Boxes: A Prop Art Exhibition Collaboration by Brigid Brophy and Maureen Duffy, Jill Longmate; 12. Brigid Brophy's Prancing Novelist and Black and White: Experiments in Biography, Peter Parker; 13. 'Monster Cupid': Brophy, Camp, and The Snow Ball, Allan Pero; 14. A Felicitous Day for Fish, Kim Stallwood; 15. Brigid Brophy: The Dissenting Feminist, Carole Sweeney; 16. A Certain Detachment?, Kate Levey; Notes on Contributors; Index.

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