| Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Lives |
$25.00 |
| The Victorian Women's Trust |
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The book of Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Lives was developed to accompany the Trust's groundbreaking exhibition for the Centenary of Federation. It tells the stories of 263 remarkable Victorian women, poignantly illustrating the extraordinary contribution of women to the shaping of Victoria. It seeks to right the public record with regard to women's many and formidable achievements. |
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| Cyberfeminism: Connectivity, Critique & Creativity |
$8.00 |
| Susan Hawthorne, Renate Klein |
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A collection of essays exploring the possibilities that cyberspace holds for feminism and for feminists. It grapples with pitfalls of the medium, with theorists examining trafficking of women, perceptions of the body, the discourses of the medium and the problems of global and homogenised culture.
The book includes discussions of cyberpoetry and hypertext, developing resources for online Women's Studies and libraries, as well as developments in CD-Rom, games and VRML.
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| Rumours of Dreams |
$16.50 |
| Sandi Hall |
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A new and startling novel beginning in our South Pacific future and stretching back to a mediterranean past; exploring a friendship that could affect the history of the world.
Living in 2002, Stella Mante can remember back ttwo thousand years, when she was a ten-year-old girl named mary whose best friend is a boy she nicknames Santer.
An orphan herself, the young Mary is intrigued by Santer's mother, whose name is also Mary. Her interest deepens when, as teenagers, Santer's mother helps them both secretly flee to Alexandria, the dazzling city of Cleopatra's snowy palace, and the greatest university in the known world.
As Santer fights against his destiny, Mary is drawn more and more into mysterious events that threaten both their lives, and trigger her own life quest.
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| A Certain Age - Women Growing Older |
$25.00 |
| Marilyn Poole and Susan Feldman (eds) |
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A Certain Age explores the public and private lives of older women. Challenging the emphasis on declining health in other studies of ageing, it looks at the interactions between older women and family, friends and the community, as well as their work and leisure activities.
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Three Masquerades
Essays on Equality, Work and Human Rights |
$27.50 |
| Marilyn Waring |
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In a world where half the population is likely to be excluded from international human rights guarantees, where unpaid work is given no economic value, where parliamentary process denies women a voice - in such a world 'truths masquerades as lies'. Marilyn Waring writes, in these three essays, of the pretences that create and sustain inequality.
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| Counting for Nothing - What Men Value and What Women are Worth |
$27.50 |
| Marilyn Waring |
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Women's work fuels the economies of every country in the world. Yet no value is placed on this labour. Marilyn Waring analyses economics from a feminist perspective and explores the implications of discounting the work of half the world's population. Once again she challenges the assumptions on which power rests.
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| Getting Equal - The history of Australian feminism |
$27.50 |
| Marilyn Lake |
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Getting Equal in the first full length history of the Australian feminist movements - and their feisty, ebullient, determined leaders - who fought for women's political and economic rights, the right to control their bodies and their destinies. Getting Equal provides new understandings of women's activism and new perspectives on Australian politics.
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| Republic of Women - a vibrant novel of ideas, music, sensuality and humour |
$16.50 |
| Merrill Findlay |
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St Kilda is home to a vital community of free thinking individuals, and Merrill Findlay introduces an exotic cavalcade of characters. As they work and love and play, Marie and her friends explore alternative ways of living in their threatened inner-city environment. In doing so they question the philosophical basis of much contemporary western thought, rejecting the tenets of Plato's ideal republic and its continuing hold on the politics of today.
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| The Crowded Nest |
$24.95 |
| Sue Jackson |
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Explores
the ever-growing family set-up of young adults living
at home well into their twentites (or, the opposite of
the “Empty Nest Syndrome”). The book provides
“valuable pointers on how to make the most of it”.
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| The Women's Cookbook |
$15.00 |
| Jill Dupleix (ed) |
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The Women's Cookbook is a celebration of women, food and entertaining with recipes from more than fifty of Australia's most creative and energetic cooks. Chefs, food writers, authors, caterers and providores offer their delicious recipes as testimony to the imagination, dedication and generosity of Australian women.
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| The Blood Wood Clan |
$16.50 |
| Beryl Fletcher |
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An intriguing tale of secrecy, politics, religious and racial intolerance, set in the Australian high country. Josie is sent to Digger Town near Mudgee, New South Wales to conduct doctoral research. She knows it is a strange place with a strange history, that the people there use no modern technologies, wear nineteenth century clothing, drive a horse and cart, and make all their own produce, but she is not prepared for the encounters she has.
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| The Day Kadi Lost Part of Her Life |
$16.50 |
| Isabel Ramos Rioja and Kim Manresa |
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The Day Kadi Lost Part of Her Life is a moving photostory of a four year old African girl named Kadi, who is subjected to female genital mutilation in accordance with the traditions of her community. Black and white photographs document the activities of the day in which she undergoes this operation and an explanatory text details exactly what is female genital mutilation entails.
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