Gender imbalance in HSC English texts criticised

By Linda Morris
Updated November 30 2014 - 10:08am, first published November 24 2014 - 11:52am
Imbalance: Camilla Nelson, of the University of Notre Dame, questions why most texts authorised for study in years 11 and 12 were written by men. Photo: Edwina Pickles
Imbalance: Camilla Nelson, of the University of Notre Dame, questions why most texts authorised for study in years 11 and 12 were written by men. Photo: Edwina Pickles

Anna Funder's Stasiland made it to the new list of prescribed English texts for Higher School Certificate study as did the filmmaker Jane Campion, the science fiction novelist Ursula Le Guin and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre.