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"Max Robinson: I experienced my transition as a form of resistance, but in reality it only affirmed the same stereotypes that had done me harm to b...

In an age when falsehoods are commonly taken as truth, Janice Raymond’s new book illuminates the ‘doublethink’ of a transgender movement that is ab...

Cyclonic storms inform the still eye of Earth's Breath. It's an eye that radiates out from the personal to the communal, tracking its subject matte...

The pathology of patriarchy, the idea that one group of people should control another -- even own them, own even life itself -- is at the core of t...

Patricia Hughes shows a remarkable ability to tell a story and to embed her autobiography into a searing account of what it is like to be violated ...

'Sex, silence and sin', this is what newly appointed professor, Dee P Scrutari, writes in her notebook as she turns her anthropological gaze on the...

Six years ago the Preston Creative Living Centre, a small community agency in the diverse northern suburbs of Melbourne embarked upon a risky but e...

Noted Australian author Susan Hawthorne creates a desert odyssey as she interweaves the emotional and physical journeys of her central characters. ...

For Mara, mother of four, sole provider for her family, life has never been easy. In a community that relies upon traditional magic to cure AIDS, a...

A brave and compelling story of the difficulties of motherhood. Carol Bacchi tells of her battle with her baby son, and the difficulty she encounte...

When the ghostly Fedora interrupts Julie Bernhard's morning coffee in Brunswick Street, Julie's life is set to change. An out-of-work private inves...

This book represents an ingenious reworking of fairytales. Greek and Sanskrit mythology, mixed with the author's original material and vivid imagin...

First there was the detective novel with its stubble-chinned PI. Then came the feminist super sleuths. Feisty fierce and real. Now there's 'Figment...

1987. The Philippine government fights a total war against insurgency. The village of Iraya is militarised. The days are violent and the nights hea...

Sydney, Milsons Point, 1926. Entire streets are being demolished for the building of the Harbour Bridge. Ellis Gilbey, landlady by day, gardening w...

Sandy Jeffs was born in Ballarat in 1953. She was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1976, a time when recovery was seen as unlikely. She was in and o...

If the human being is allowed to be genetically manipulated and made by artificial means in the laboratory in an unstoppable crescendo of experimen...

The author argues that there is no evidence of how much cervical cancer HPV vaccine will prevent. What is emerging, however, is evidence of its har...

Thousands of pages of books, millions of characters in tweets and hundreds of blogs have been devoted to explaining the distinction between sex and...

From advertising and merchandising, to Bratz and Voodoo Dolls, to the images of Bill Henson, Getting Real puts the spotlight on the sexualisation a...

Getting your man, the right man, is not always easy. But women, whether they are piece workers, housewives, artists, business women or farmers, kno...

Are diamonds really a girl's best friend? We don't think so, and neither will you after a look at this beautifully illustrated book. With contribut...

A story of one girl 's struggle with herself, her life and her family. And the story of a family's struggle with a daughter/sister they can never h...