An indispensable book for anyone travelling in Australia who wants to understand how women have contributed to the culture and the history. With contributions from Indigenous writers on land, culture and life and from women who trace their heritage to one of the many waves of migrants over more than 200 years. From landscape to literature, from the history of feminism to women's involvement in...

From the Palaeolithic to the present, Chinese women have held up half the sky. Today they work as architects, soldiers, physicians and fruit growers, and some have travelled the Yangzi rapids in a rubber raft. China for Women is the perfect guide for tourist or armchair travellers. It neatly bridges past and present and brings to life the complex culture and history of China. From the silk...

A SPINIFEX FEMINIST CLASSIC

Australia's film industry was amongst the earliest and most innovative in the world. Don't Shoot Darling brings together more than forty women film-makers, film critics and theorists to create an important and fascinating record of independent women's filmmaking in Australia. The book contains essays and statements by film theorists and film makers. Barbara Creed...

Art that inhabits its ambiguity is simultaneously a political stance and an artistic attitude. —Paul Carter Bringing together eight major and emerging artists as well as philosophers, writers and environmentalists, this book focuses on the essential connection and reciprocal relations between culture and the land. These essays were originally presented as part of ‘The Lie of the Land’ Forum....

A SPINIFEX FEMINIST CLASSIC

Margaret Preston on Australian women artists; Miles Franklin on suffragist Rose Scott; Eleanor Dark on Caroline Chisholm; Kylie Tennant on the future ... Like mirrors reflecting mirrors this book shows the precarious position of women in a country’s history. First published in 1938, the youngest of the contributors, Kylie Tennant, just before her death in 1988...