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...

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...

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...

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...

Suniti Namjoshi grew up between the rich and the poor, between the ruling house of the Ranisaheb and the servant woman Goja, between the East of ex...

It’s 1974 when 20-year-old Grace arrives in London determined to shrug off her Australian past and reinvent herself. While embracing her new life i...

Penny Zagarelou-Mackieson always knew she was adopted. But she didn’t know she was swapped at birth. After a lifetime grappling with issues of iden...

Jewellery designer Maisoon wants an ordinary extraordinary life, which isn’t easy for a tradition-defying, activist, Palestinian citizen of Israel ...

She sleeps naked, wearing pearls, to play her part.Robin Morgan's latest collection is a tour-de force: poetry that thrills the intellect and stirs...

Are you tired of finding towels on the bathroom floor? Have you ever walked through a supermarket with a thirty-five-year-old child who wants only ...

Horses inhabit our dreams, carrying us to safety or on wild adventures. Some of our dream horses fly, others have magical powers. Whatever our drea...

A poem can glisten like a fresh wound. Usha Akella pays tribute to the lives of women from cultures across continents, while reflecting on her own ...

Exquisitely beautiful, the photographs of Bombay-born Lariane Fonseca, were inspired by the writing of Virginia Woolf and the paintings of Georgia ...

Molly Rose Moone dreamt of worms the night before she married Jimmy Brown in Tooting Bec. Milky sticky wet worms wriggled and fed off one another i...