For too long the global sex industry and its vested interests have dominated the prostitution debate repeating the same old line that sex work is just like any job. In large sections of the media, academia, public policy, Government and the law, the sex industry has had its way. Little is said of the damage, violation, suffering, and torment of prostitution on the body and the mind, nor of the...

A SPINIFEX FEMINIST CLASSIC

Award-winning author Finola Moorhead stitches together essays, reviews and short stories that make an incisive comment of the process of writing. She writes of sentences and mathematics, of rubbish bins and nightmares, of nuns and abortions. Through it all are is the invisible stitching of an author for whom five finger exercises are for more than musical training....

The book no feminist can live without. Q. If there's no such thing as "truth", why can you be sent to jail for perjury? A. (a) Because judges have not read Foucault; A. (b) jail is just a text; A. (c) you deserved it. —From the Po-mo Quiz Radical feminists are at it again. They are subversive, reflective, funny, polemical, political, moving,...

This unique, international offering on an issue of critical importance today, demonstrates how women as activists, scientists and scholars are at the forefront of shaping new scientific and economic paradigms to reclaim seed sovereignty and food security across the world. Women in the North and South are leading movements to change both practice and paradigm: how we grow and transform our...