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Vaccination Against Pregnancy: Miracle Or Menace
Judith Richter
Judith Richter examines the research into a new class of birth control methods in which the body is challenged by immuno-contraceptives or anti-fertility ‘vaccines’. A model book that challenges unorthodox and dangerous research on women’s bodies and on their lives. A book that has wrought changes to research and stopped further development of medicines that create harm. Recommended for...
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Voices Of The Survivors
Patricia Easteal
I hope with the women who break their silence and contribute to this survey some very much needed changes will take place. God knows we need them.This book is the result of a nationwide survey of 2300 letters from women and 97 from men about rape and sexual abuse. Patricia Easteal analysed the materials primarily from women who have experienced abuse from husbands, estranged husbands,...
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Walking Through Fire
Nawal El Saadawi
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...
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Wild Politics: Feminism, Globalisation and Bio/diversity
Susan Hawthorne
Best Book, Australian Book Review, 2002
Dominant culture knowledge diminishes the knowledge and understanding of the powerless, and because knowledges of the powerless are regarded with contempt, the powerful are cut off from greater understanding. The powerful suffer from the syndrome of Dominant Culture Stupidities.
Looking for a new way forward, or a different explanation of what is...
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Will To Violence: The Politics Of Personal Behaviour
Susanne Kappeler
Sexual violence, racial violence, and the hatred of foreigners: how should we understand these and other forms of violent human behaviour? A brilliantly original analysis of violence in its many forms. Susanne Kappeler argues that violence is not just a social phenomenon which can be analysed scientifically: rather, it is a type of action which individuals ‘will’ or choose to perform. Kappeler...
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