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Daughters of Development, The
Sinith Sittirak

This is a powerful feminist critique of the Western concept of development, which has brought profound changes to the lives of women in the South over the last thirty years. It is also an attempt to rediscover and rehabilitate traditional indigenous knowledge as an important basis for empowering women and re-establishing the foundation of reciprocity in the North-South dialogue. Sinith...



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Day Kadi Lost Part of Her Life, The
Isabel Ramos Rioja & Kim Manresa

Kadi's first scream went through me like a dagger. … Kadi, the cheerful four-year-old … had just discovered pain, the horror of tradition. They had circumcised her… The Day Kadi Lost Part of Her Life is the moving photostory of a four-year-old girl named Kadi who is subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM) in accordance with the traditions of her community. Kadi's story is typical of every...



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Fortunes of Mary Fortune, The
Lucy Sussex

After arriving in Australia with her young son in 1855, Mary Fortune went on to become Australia’s first female crime writer. Lucy Sussex’s detective work reveals something of this remarkable woman, but Mary Fortune’s writing is her best testimony. Its verve and quality recreate Melbourne in the grip of gold fever and of life on the goldfields. She depicts the harshness of life in her time,...



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Globalized Woman, The
Christa Wichterich

Globalization creates growth without jobs in the North, structural adjustment in the South, privatization in the East and the dismantling of states everywhere. It is a process which unifies through market integration and new information technologies, yet separates through growing social polarization. It is also a process which depends on the feminization of employment; rather than liberating...



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Great Climate Robbery, The
Grain
The great climate robbery provides valuable information about how the industrial food system causes climate change, how food and agribusiness corporations are getting away with it, and what can be done to turn things around. The various chapters in this collection document the ill effects of this industrial food system such as the growing hunger, the destruction of rural peoples’ livelihoods,...


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Making Trouble - Tongued with Fire

Making Trouble - Tongued with Fire


Sue Ingleton

In the cold winter of 1875, two rebellious spirits travel from the pale sunlight of England to the raw heat of Australia....

Karu

Karu


Biddy Wavehill Yamawurr, Felicity Meakins, Topsy Dodd Ngarnjal, Violet Wadrill

Beautifully written by First Nations women on Gurindji country where the fight for equal wages began. This book...

Portrait of the Artist's Mother

Portrait of the Artist's Mother


Fiona Place

I am seen by many as a danger. As having failed to understand the new rules, the new paradigm of successful motherhood.

Defiant Birth

Defiant Birth


Melinda Tankard Reist

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The women in this book may be among the last to have babies without the medical stamp of approval.

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