Kerryn Higgs
Kerryn Higgs is a novelist, activist and songwriter. Her novel, All That False Instruction, was the first out lesbian novel to be published in Australia in 1976 and was released under the pseudonym Elizabeth Riley. For many years she lived on the women's lands in NSW and now divides her time between New York and Australia.
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All diese Falsche Moral
All That False Instruction by Kerryn Higgs. Originally published under the name of Elizabeth Riley, Angus & Robertson, UK: German, All diese Falsche Moral, Frauenoffensive.
Kerryn Higgs
A Spinifex feminist classic, and winner of the Angus and Robertson manuscript prize.
Growing up in a rural working-class home, Maureen Craig rebels against her angry mother, the privileges of her favoured brother and the relentless conformity of 1950s Australia. University promises a new world both terrifying and exhilarating in its challenges. She explores her sexuality and sets out to make a place for herself in the world. Passionate, funny and heartbreaking, this remarkable novel traces a young woman’s turbulent coming of age.
Originally published under the pseudonym Elizabeth Riley. This edition includes an Introduction by Harriet Malinowitz and an Afterword by the author.
2001 | ISBN 9781876756147 | Paperback | 197 x 130 mm | 256 pages