'with men I feel like a very sharp, glittering blade' – when 5 liberated women spoke the truth
- Written by Kath Kenny, Sessional academic, Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language, and Literature, Macquarie University
Helen Garner on stage in Betty Can Jump at The Pram Factory in 1972.Photo courtesy of the Betty Can Jump collectiveThere’s a climactic scene in Helen Garner’s third and latest diary where she describes tipping a box of her then husband’s cigars into a pot of soup, picking up a pair of scissors, slashing a straw hat that belongs...