A SPINIFEX FEMINIST CLASSIC

Women are rarely mentioned in the literature as owners of country in their own right or as decision-making individuals; they appear as wives and mothers, their relationship to the jukurrpa always mediated through another. Yet I believe women enjoyed direct access to the jukurrpa from which flowed into rights and responsibilities in land, a power base as independent...

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...

A SPINIFEX FEMINIST CLASSIC

There was once a man who thought he could do anything, even be a woman. So he acquired a baby, changed its diapers and fed the damn thing three times a night. He did all the housework, was deferential to men, and got worn out. But he had a brother, Jack Cleverfellow, who hired a wife and got it all done.

Suniti Namjoshi is elegant and subversive in creating new...

A SPINIFEX FEMINIST CLASSIC

Frictions is a classic. Frictions is writing that is risky and exhilarating. Now in its third edition, Frictions shows where the writing of now started. With work by Elizabeth Jolley and Finola Moorhead, Andrea Goldsmith and Ania Walwicz, this anthology brought a fresh generation of writers to the world. A passionate and witty anthology that is an adventure for any...