Reading the reviews on this page it is evident that 'Bush Studies' suffers somewhat from the curse of being a set text, perhaps even a weapon in a literary studies debate - a female alternative to the very male world of Australian bush writing, as exemplified by Henry Lawson.
It certainly fulfils this role well - it seems that Baynton herself saw the book partly in those terms - but it would be a shame if this detracted from its intrinsic worth.
