The Abbotsford Convent becomes more than the setting, the grey mince-meat walls, of this collection. It emerges as presence, intimate and familiar ...

The eyes catch a black bird close to an eerie sun. Instantly, a poem: an accident of composition. Or a tree, rock, light from a story heard, dreamt...

From fishing villages on the Gujarat coastline to Adani’s power plant in Mundra and thecompany’s headquarters in Ahmedabad, Lindsay Simpson’s perso...

What is it like to be adopted, have your identity changed and never feel quite at home in your new family, despite being loved? What is it like to ...

As a young unmarried mother in the 1960s, Maureen faces stifling disapproval and condemnation from mainstream society. Desperate to create a new li...

Maureen Craig escapes from a difficult childhood on the fringe of a country town to the promise of the big city and a new world. But within the sto...

Migration and the memories of women's traditions are woven throughout these poems. Angela Costi brings the world of Cyprus to Australia. Her mother...

In the tradition of Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein'. Imagination, vision and a sense of the absurd come together and demonstrate that women can resis...

Ann Hannah was an ordinary, no-nonsense, practical woman. While a constant and caring presence in the life of her granddaughter Betty McLellan, she...

They came from the shtetl to a new land, to a new life. Another year in Africa, they said, another year in exile. Old bonds break as they adjust fr...

The sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s is remembered as a time of great freedom for women. But did the sexual revolution have the same goals ...

What happens when a group of scientists take creation into their own hands? 'Ao Toa' is that rare novel -- an eco-thriller combining action and sus...

Australia is a land full of opportunities, but where can you go to find the things that matter to women? This book is a guide to the land as well a...

Filled with larger-than-life, strong, wilful and unconventional women, this novel tells of the lasting effect this larrikin mob has on the life of ...

In 1998, Sweden passed ground-breaking legislation criminalising the purchase of sexual services which sought to curb demand and support women exit...

NEW PREFACE In 1998, Sweden passed ground-breaking legislation that criminalized the purchase of sexual services which sought to curb demand and su...

Between Wind and Water, is to be in a vulnerable place, the place where people and planet are. When industrial wind arrives in the neighbourhood, s...

Betty McLellan surveys the development of psychotherapy and discusses the theory of feminist therapy. She uncovers the oppressiveness of Freudian p...

In a globalised world, megacorp publishing is all about numbers, about sameness, about following a formula based on the latest megasuccess. Each bo...

The unprecedented mainstreaming of the global pornography industry is transforming the sexual politics of intimate and public life, popularising ne...

Birds don't fly with leads, I said. / Safety belts are to learn with, not to live with -- / I'm safer on the trapeze than crossing the road. / And ...

There are some things you should never speak about. In Francesca Rendle-Short's family, silence was golden. So to break ranks and tell stories abou...

The poems in this collection are an evocative documentation of the harrowing experiences of a child living in a hostile and unhappy home. The reade...

Josie is sent to Digger Town near Mudgee to do research for a PhD. She knows it is a strange place with a strange history, that the people there us...

In this, her fifth collection, Diane Fahey explores diverse settings in Venice, Scotland and Australia. She is also the inner traveller, revisiting...

BODY SHELL GIRL is a memoir in verse about the first two years of a decade that Rose Hunter spent in the sex industry in Canada. When Rose walked i...

Reading this book is like falling through a faultline, as we respond to poesis, both as poetry and as thought creation. Margaret Somerville attende...

How did we move so far from love that a mother’s grief became the vehicle with which to punish her? Losing a baby during childbirth is one of the m...

Around the world thousands of couples and singles procure babies through surrogacy arrangements. Many people see surrogacy as driven by compassion ...

What are the ingredients required for building a new world? Is it order, or chaos? Is it power or love? Is it simply bricks? How long will it take?...

The butterfly effect is a concept from physics in which it is surmised that small actions can have enormous consequences, and that the flutter of a...

This is a book about the different ways the diagnosis of ovarian cancer affected two active members of the lesbian community in Melbourne in the 19...

What do animals mean in the life of humans? This is an increasingly asked question, especially when so many households own at least one pet. Studie...

The book for every traveller to China wanting to understand the history of women in this vast and incredible land. The book brings to life the comp...

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) takes account of the relationship between mind, body and emotions. This book takes a common-sense approach to wo...

The only dream come true I relish with a vengeance is whistling like a man. I was told a woman fit to be married should not whistle. I don’t want t...