Dominant culture knowledge diminishes the knowledge and understanding of the powerless, and because knowledges of the powerless are regarded with contempt, the powerful are cut off from greater understanding. The powerful suffer from the syndrome of Dominant Culture Stupidities.

Looking for a new way forward, or a different explanation of what is currently happening? Susan Hawthorne...

An insightful and illuminating compilation of essays generated from the ground-breaking ‘Women and the Law ‘ conference.  This conference held a torch above what was a current public debate focussing especially on judicial attitudes and their impact on women.  This selection of conference papers are published to inform a wider audience and remind us all that the work of reform of our legal...

A fascinating collection of conference papers regarding women's access to justice, and the promises Australia made at the 1995 Beijing World Conference on Women.

Includes pieces on issues such as Equality before the Law, Aboriginal Women and the Law, and Women's Rights and Human Rights, by Hilary Charlesworth, Elizabeth Evatt, Sally Brown, Jocelyn Newman, David Malcolm, Moira Rayner, and...

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Under the guise of liberatory science, the biomedical establishment is using women's bodies as the biological laboratories of the future.

In Women as Wombs leading feminist ethicist Janice Raymond's scathing analysis of high-tech biomedical reproductive techniques contributes groundbreaking insights into the raging debate over reproductive technology and its ethical, legal, and...

This remarkable book charts the effects of the economic boom on women across Asia. Yayori Matsui, one of Japan’s leading journalists, demonstrates how Asian women are confronting rapid economic development which is accompanied by widespread infringement of human rights. Matsui explores the impact of globalization and trafficking of women, sexual violence and so-called ‘development projects’...