Susan Wyndham, journalist and literary editor, best summarises the issue in her the questions opening her article in The Sydney Morning Herald Blogs: ``Does Australia need a new fiction award that encourages 'positive' portrayals of women and girls? Or is it an outdated gesture in a post-feminist culture rich with female authors, characters and readers?'' Wyndham reports Rosalind Hinde, daughter of John Hinde and Barbara Jefferis, as saying that her father had ``the very clear and strong intention to honour my mother's writing, her feminisim and her devotion to other writers''.
Susan Wyndham, journalist and literary editor, best summarises the issue in her the questions opening her article in The Sydney Morning Herald Blogs: ``Does Australia need a new fiction award that encourages 'positive' portrayals of women and girls?
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Or is it an outdated gesture in a post-feminist culture rich with female authors, characters and readers?''
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Wyndham reports Rosalind Hinde, daughter of John Hinde and Barbara Jefferis, as saying that her father had ``the very clear and strong intention to honour my mother's writing, her feminisim and her devotion to other writers''.
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