Reliving the 1980s through teenage eyes

Okay, Fine: A Memoir of Pop Culture, Feminism and Feelings By Brodie Lancaster Hachette, 272pp, $32.99 Since its inception in 1994, Melbourne-based Text Publishing has engaged in the noble if fraught pursuit of unearthing and rebirthing long-forgotten Australian literary treasures. There are boys to...

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Published inWeekend Australian
Main Author Gillespie, Katherine
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Canberra, A.C.T News Limited 24.06.2017
Subjects
Feminism
Joyce, James (1882-1941)
McBride, Eimear
Novels
Popular culture
Saunders, George
Writers
Writing
Australia
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Summary:Okay, Fine: A Memoir of Pop Culture, Feminism and Feelings By Brodie Lancaster Hachette, 272pp, $32.99 Since its inception in 1994, Melbourne-based Text Publishing has engaged in the noble if fraught pursuit of unearthing and rebirthing long-forgotten Australian literary treasures. There are boys to meet at the roller skating rink, cigarettes to smoke in the girls' toilets at school, blue eye shadow to wear, clubs to sneak into, and best friendships to form at sleepovers. Given the age and sex of the heroine, it might have been tempting to release this novel into the young adult fiction market. Yet the strongest chapters are those that sidestep pop culture for the personal, with Lancaster writing frankly about her struggle to achieve "fat acceptance", and the gendered treatment overweight women unfairly receive. [...]one can't help but note that there is no longer shock value in reading a piece of criticism that weights...