“…Covering a heterogeneous selection of contemporary Australasian literature, what these critical studies convincingly demonstrate is that, more than two hundred years after the process of colonisation was set in motion, the experience that Germaine Greer has dubbed 'the pain of unbelonging' continues unabated, constituting a dominant thematic concern in the writing produced today by Australian and New Zealand authors…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cowan -- Clinical waste / Hilary Mantel -- One man's story / Ronald Higgins -- Eros and art / Joan Raphael-Leff -- Mourning the never born and the loss of the angel / Juliet Miller -- The battle with mortality and the urge to procreate / Michael Pawson -- Myths and reality in male infertility / Sammy Lee -- Love, hate and the generative couple / George Christie and Ann Morgan -- The story of Seth's egg / Emma Scrimgeour -- Seth / Flora Scrimgeour -- Gifts of life in absentia : regenerative fertility and the puzzle of the 'missing genetrix' / Monica Konrad -- Women's work : the practice of donor insemination amongst some lesbian women / Jane Haynes -- Egg donation : the mission to have a child / Sue Stuart-Smith -- Dark reflections : the shadow side of assisted reproductive techniques / Diane Finiello Zervas -- Afterword / Germaine Greer…”
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