Kris Olsson’s Kilroy was Here

Michele Jarldorn

doi:10.11157/anzswj-vol30iss3id547

Abstract

Clkassic book review of Olsson, K. (2005). Kilroy was here. Sydney, NSW: Bantam Books.

Highlights

Coming to university as a “non-traditional” mature-aged student, while posing numerous challenges, furnished me with the ability to connect the dots between the theories and lived experience of oppression
Taught by Dr Heather Brook, who later became my primary PhD supervisor, the topic and the content helped shape who I am as a social worker, academic and activist in various ways
Heather demonstrated the ways in which gender, race and class influence how social problems are created, addressed and resolved

Summary

Introduction

Coming to university as a “non-traditional” mature-aged student, while posing numerous challenges, furnished me with the ability to connect the dots between the theories and lived experience of oppression. Taught by Dr Heather Brook, who later became my primary PhD supervisor, the topic and the content helped shape who I am as a social worker, academic and activist in various ways. Later in that same lesson, Heather talked about her recent attendance at an international conference where she had heard feminist responses to prison and the criminalisation of women.

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