What does a place mean? An old kauri villa with a one-roomed school attached is the place that has sustained a writer, Beryl Fletcher, through turbulent years and an obsessive love. Sent away at the age of six for a few months to the house at Karamu, she discovered books and spent many nights reading by candlelight, listening to the call of the moreporks. Karamu became a symbolic landscape of...

In this autobiography, Maria Mies packs in seventy-seven years of life: from the small German village of her childhood, to the world of the Indian subcontinent. Sociologist and Women’s Studies researcher, scholar, ecofeminist, and international activist, Maria Mies is one of the world’s original thinkers.

Maria Mies’ achievements include developing groundbreaking praxis and theory around the...

A moving journey through the experience of breast cancer, and the many different approaches and treatments. Evelyne Accad presents a rare insight into cross-cultural understandings of illness. Multi-layered and in many voices, it is as important a book for medical practitioners as it is for people touched by cancer.

In this one-of-a-kind anthology, lesbian sisters from several countries explore their relationships with one another. Through their words and photographs, both well-known and less-famous siblings reveal the many faces of lesbian sisterhood. Here is a fascinating chronicle of what it is like to grow up, come out, laugh, cry, work and live together, as sisters in a family and as lesbians in a world.

Nawal El Saadawi, internationally known for her novels, short stories and writings on women, now writes about her life, about the reactions in the Arab world to her writings on sex; about her imprisonment under Sadat and her struggles against oppression and discrimination. Beginning her working life as a rural doctor, she goes on to set up women’s organisations and publish magazines later...