There are (at least) two competing views on prostitution: Prostitution as a legitimate and acceptable form of employment, freely chosen by women; And men’s use of prostitution as a form of degrading the women and causing grave psychological damage.

In The Idea of Prostitution, Sheila Jeffreys explores these sharply contrasting views. She examines the changing concept of prostitution from...

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...

A SPINIFEX FEMINIST CLASSIC

In this collection of essays, performance pieces, poetry and prose, mother as noun, appendage and agenda is mined for meaning in the contemporary world. Mothers are spectacular, for every child there is a mother even if unknown. Is she a bad mother, a good mother, a TV mother, a kitchen mother, an immortal mother, a devil mother, an immaculate mother? Is she the...

A SPINIFEX FEMINIST CLASSIC

A Spinifex feminist classic and winner of The Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction. In love and in war there is killing, but is it still murder? Beginning with the discovery of an unidentified corpse, buried under a conspicuous plantation of marijuana seedlings in Wiley Park, Still Murder twists and turns giving voice to different perpetrators and victims...