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Another Year in Africa
Rose Zwi
Winner of the Olive Schreiner Award, The Australian, Best Books of the Year, 1995.
They came from the stetl to a new land, to a new life. Another year in Africa, they said, another year in exile. Old bonds break as they adjust from the old world of pogroms to their new life in Africa. Six-year-old Ruth is haunted by memories of tragedy and persecution that are not even hers. Award-winning...
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Ao Toa
Cathie Dunsford
A modern fictional equivalent of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring.
What happens when a group of scientists take creation into their own hands?
Ao Toa is that rare novel - an eco-thriller combining action and suspense with deep emotions and the sensual power of the natural world. It is peopled with believable women and men, teenagers and elders, suits and activists, farmers and gardeners. As...
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Beyond Psychoppression
Betty McLellan
A guide to therapy, Beyond Psychoppression explores the intersection between the personal and the political. Betty McLellan surveys the development of psychotherapy and exposes the oppressive techniques of Freudian psychoanalysis, humanistic therapies, lesbian sex therapy and new age and popular therapies. She challenges the myths about women's mental and emotional illness.
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Bird
Susan Hawthorne
'Birds don't fly with leads,' I said.
'Safety belts are to learn with, not to live with - I'm safer on the trapeze than crossing the road. And I do that every day, often by myself.'
So says thirteen-year-old Avis when confronted by the limitations imposed on her at school. She has epilepsy and some of the teachers want to stop her participating in the sport she loves most. Susan Hawthorne...
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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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