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Biography
Patricia Easteal

Professor Patricia Easteal teaches law at the University of Canberra. Her multidisciplinary research examines ‘justice’ for women and other minorities. She has written over 140 academic journal articles and chapters and 14 books including 2010 Women and the Law in Australia, Real Rape, Real Pain: Help for Women Sexually Assaulted by Male Partners (2006), Less Than Equal: Women and the Australian Legal System (2001), Balancing the Scales: Rape, Law Reform and AustralianCulture (1998), Shattered Dreams, Marital Violence Against Women: The Overseas-born in Australia (1996), Voices of the Survivors (1994), Killing the Beloved: Homicide between Adult Sexual Intimates (1993). She was named 2010 Australian of the Year (ACT) and received a 2010 Member Order of Australia ‘for service to the community, education and the law through promoting awareness and understanding of violence against women, discrimination and access to justice for minority groups.


Website: http://www.linkedin.com/in/patriciaeastealhttp://www.canberra.edu.au/faculties/law/overview/staff-profiles/easteal

News
26 Jan 2010 Patricia Easteal awarded Order of Australia

Congratulations to Patricia Easteal, author of Voices of the Survivors, who has been awarded an Order of Australia for service to the community, education a... more


Awards
2010 Awarded an Order of Australia for service to the community, education and the law

Books published by, or available from, Spinifex
Voices Of The Survivors

Out Now
The Aerial Letter

The Aerial Letter


Nicole Brossard

What characterizes women as a group is our colonized status. To be colonized is not to think for oneself...in short, not...


Murmurations

Murmurations


Carol Lefevre

For the first time since he’d left the island he thought of the starlings massed at dusk in the winter trees behind the...


Symphony for the Man

Symphony for the Man


Sarah Brill

1999. Winter. Bondi. Harry’s been on the streets so long he could easily forget what time is. So Harry keeps an eye on...


In Defence of Separatism

In Defence of Separatism


Susan Hawthorne

In Defence of Separatism is a timely book. When it was first written in 1976, although it was an important subject of...


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