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Author/Editor: Renate Klein

Biography
Renate Klein

Dr Renate Klein is a long-term women's health researcher and has written extensively on reproductive technologies and feminist theory over the last thirty years. A biologist and social scientist, she was Associate Professor in Women's Studies at Deakin University in Melbourne. She is a co-founder of FINRRAGE (Feminist International Network of Resistance to Reproductive and Genetic Engineering) and an original signatory to Stop Surrogacy Now.


Events
15 Mar 2019 Broken Bonds: Surrogate Mothers Speak Out at Storey Hall, RMIT, Carlton VIC


Join us at 5.45PM when Professor S Caroline Taylor AM will be launching Broken Bonds as part of the Broken Bonds and Big Money Conference. Buy your book in ... more
14 Mar 2019 Broken Bonds and Big Money: An International Conference on Surrogacy at Storey Hall, RMIT, Carlton VIC

Broken Bonds and Big Money
On 15-16 March, an international conference on surrogacy will be held at RMIT in Melbourne. Broken Bonds and Big Money will draw attention to the human right... more

01 Aug 2018 Abolitionist Debates


Sex work mythology and abolitionist reality: International battle-lines

Julie Bindel will critique the global ‘sex workers’ rights’ movement and how its ‘hap... more
29 May 2018 #MeToo: An evening of radical feminist politics and lesbian fiction at Burley Fisher Bookshop, 400 Kingsland Road, London
The abuse of women under patriarchy takes many forms whether it be the use of women as reproductive breeders in surrogacy or the violence against lesbians wh... more

Book Awards
Angels of Power: 1991, Australian Feminist Book Fortnight Favourite
RU 486: Australian Human Rights Award for Literature and Other Writing, Certificate of Commendation for Non-fiction, 1992

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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