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Allusions to Lorine Niedecker in the work of contemporary poets Elizabeth Willis, Liana Quill, and Pattie McCarthy construct a shadow literary history that advances Niedecker's contributions more effectively than literary scholarship. Deploying allusion in ways deeply consonant with Niedecker's ethos, these works establish systems of referral that counter the more competitive, exclusionary modes of the traditional trope and offer fresh ways of understanding affinities among women writers.Keywords: feminist poetics / allusion / Lorine Niedecker / contemporary poetry, In Elizabeth Willis's 1995 The Human Abstract, Liana Quill's 2010 50 Poems, and Pattie McCarthy's 2012 marybones, I first noticed an alternate paradigm of lyric and lineage, in which poets [...]

Some years ago, the author had her first opportunity to teach an undergraduate American Romanticism course, which meant she had a chance to teach "Moby-Dick" the way she thought it should be taught. Meeting two days a week, her course was set up so that students read about thirty pages of "Moby-Dick" for one class meeting a week paired with readings by another writer for the other meeting. For example, they might read Poe's "Philosophy of Composition" on Tuesday, followed by sections of "Moby-Dick" including "Cetology" on Thursday--or the other way around. Three weeks or fewer than one hundred pages in, colleagues, men and women both, cornered her in the copy room and hall to mock scold or interrogate her about this pretend aberration: "What? YOU teaching "Moby Whale"? Those poor kids. Nobody teaches "Moby Whale"," or more revealingly, "I heard you were teaching "Moby-Dick"?? I thought you were a feminist." As Charlene Avallone notes, "[T]he work that [Melville's] texts have been made to perform in reinforcing an androcentric and misogynist American culture" certainly explains the foundation of some of these remarks. Then and since, her defense for teaching a book that has all of two named women characters, both played for laughs, by an author who operates as synecdoche for the white male canon has been insufficient. This essay is an effort not only to defend herself but also to examine and to challenge some of the assumptions central to this anecdote: first, that nobody wants to read "Moby-Dick" anymore, even when one thinks she should read it, and that nobody likes it when it's required. Second, that the teacher-scholar model, typically employed to defend increased publishing requirements by casting scholarship as prerequisite to teaching competence, means only that scholarship serves students rather than that their work with students often leads them to new specializations. Third, that "Moby-Dick" and other canonical keystones are inimical to feminism and feminism to "Moby-Dick". Finally, that what teachers teach is always more important than how they teach it. (Contains 17 notes.)

To authenticate to the full-text of this article, please visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8462.2009.00533.x Byline: Kees van Gool ([dagger]), Elizabeth Savage ([dagger]), Rosalie Viney ([dagger]), Marion Haas ([dagger]), Rob Anderson ([double dagger]) Abstract: Abstract The Medicare Safety Net (MSN) was introduced in March 2004 to provide financial relief for those who incur high out-of-pocket costs from medical services. The policy has the potential to improve equity. This study examines: (i) how the health and income profiles of small areas influence MSN expenditure; and (ii) the distribution of expenditure by medical service type. The results indicate that MSN expenditure is positively related to income and that patients who use private obstetricians and assisted reproductive services are the greatest beneficiaries. The MSN has possibly created greater inequities in Australia's health-care financing arrangements. Author Affiliation: ([dagger])Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation, University of Technology ([double dagger])Peninsula Technology Assessment Group (PENTAG), Institute of Health Service Research, Peninsula Medical School, Universities of Exeter & Plymouth Article History: First version received May 2006;final version accepted October 2008 (Eds).

Private hospitals, where individuals pay for services and public hospitals, where services are free to all but delivered after a waiting time, are the parts of the Australian hospital system. Appropriate size of these public and private sectors and the design of insurance policies depend on the extent of adverse selection and moral hazard.