History, Feminism and Time: Gillian Armstrong's Documentary Series

In this essay, Belinda Smaill explores one notion of history while also looking at different dimensions of time, including the intricate links between the spectacle of time passing, temporality within the documentary form and changing gender identity in Gillian Armstrong's documentary series about the lives of three Adelaide women. She argues that historical politics of feminism haunts the series and its reception in a number of ways.