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Daughter of Isis: The Autobiography of Nawal El Saadawi, A
Nawal El Saadawi
Nawal el Saadawi has been pilloried, censored, imprisoned and exiled for her refusal to accept the oppressions imposed on women by sex and class. For her, writing and action have been inseparable and this is reflected in some of the most evocative and disturbing novels ever written by or about Arab women.
Born in a small Egyptian village in 1931, Nawal el Saadawi went on to train as a medical...
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Daughters of Development, The
Sinith Sittirak
This is a powerful feminist critique of the Western concept of development, which has brought profound changes to the lives of women in the South over the last thirty years. It is also an attempt to rediscover and rehabilitate traditional indigenous knowledge as an important basis for empowering women and re-establishing the foundation of reciprocity in the North-South dialogue.
Sinith...
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Daughters of the Dreaming
Diane Bell
A SPINIFEX FEMINIST CLASSIC
Finalist for the 1993 J.I. Staley Prize
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...
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Daughters of the Pacific
Zohl de Ishtar
Indigenous women from across the Pacific - Hawai'i, the Marshall Islands, the Northern Marianas, Guam, Belau, Fiji, Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand and Te Ao Maohi/Tahiti Polynesia - have a voice in this book. For most of the world, the tiny island nations of the Pacific are barely known, but the events that have taken place in those nations during the twentieth century have global...
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Day Kadi Lost Part of Her Life, The
Isabel Ramos Rioja & Kim Manresa
Shortlisted, Australian Awards for Excellence in Educational Publishing, 1999
Silver Medal for Photojournalism Visa d'Or for L'Image del Festival International du Photojournalisme
Human Rights Award for the International Week of Photojournalism
Kadi's first scream went through me like a dagger. … Kadi, the cheerful four-year-old … had just discovered pain, the horror of tradition. They had...
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 FORTHCOMING
Unspeakable will be available exclusively as an eBook through the Spinifex eBook website.
This is a book...  Forthcoming September 2010
You will not elude me. I will measure your every dimension, I will trace your smallest lines....  Forthcoming August 2010
Fethiye Çetin will be a guest of the Melbourne Writers Festival 2010
An urgent, passionate memoir...  Available now!
Winner of the Rachel Carson Prize, an explosive expose of the disturbing practices of one of the world's... |
