Helen Gilbert has argued that ‘few would question the assertion that gender is as central as race to the Australian imaginary or that these two sites of difference are the main discursive axes on which cultural nationalism has been constructed’ (1998: 145).
Do you agree? If yes, how is Australian identity engendered and/or contested in two of the performances and/or texts studied as part of CAPF232?

Needs to be use these certain plays listed below
Texts studied as part of CAPF232: Patrick White’s The Ham Funeral; Jenny Kemp’s Still Angela; William Yang’s Sadness; The Hayloft Project’s Thyestes; Patricia Cornelius’s Shit; version 1.0’s The Wages of Spin; Mark Rogers’s Superheroes
Recordings of productions studied as part of CAPF232: Jenny Kemp’s Still Angela; William Yang’s Sadness; version 1.0’s The Wages of Spin; Patrick White’s The Ham Funeral, dir. by Neil Armfield, 1989; Patricia Cornelius’s Shit, dir. by Susie Dee; Mark Rogers’s Superheroes, dir. by Shari Sebbens, 2020.