Hecate's Australian Women's Book Review
Volume 15, Number 2 2003
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Editorial

The Unseen Wounds of Gun Culture
Gail Bell, Shot: A Personal Response to Guns and Trauma
A Review and an Interview by Suzanne Eggins


The Fight to Interpret Harry Potter
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix; Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire; Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban; Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets; Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Review article by Evelyn Hartogh


Are Prisons Obsolete Or Are We Content To Remain Oblivious?
Angela Y. Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete?
By Gillian Brannigan


The Unimaginable Australian
Ghassan Hage, Against Paranoid Nationalism: Searching for Hope in a Shrinking Society
By Peta Stephenson


Not Getting It
Anne Summers, The End of Equality: Work, Babies and Women's Choices in Twenty-First Century Australia
By Diane Brown


Broadening Horizons
Rita Felski, Literature After Feminism
By Rachel Slater


Wages for Housework
Gabrielle Meagher, Friend or Flunkey: Paid Domestic Workers in the New Economy
By Lise Saugeres


Behind Bars
Clare Wright, Beyond the Ladies' Lounge: Australia's Female Publicans; Christine Trimingham Growing Good Catholic Girls: Education and Convent Life in Australia
By JaneMaree Maher


Travelling Borderlands
Carolyn van Langenberg, The Teetotaller's Wake
By Shé Hawke


A Yarn Or a Documentary? No, Autobiography
Beryl Fletcher, The House at Karamu
By Jasna Novakovic


Living in a Box
Elizabeth Jolley, An Innocent Gentleman
By Rachel Slater


Digital and Other Pleasures
Barbara Creed, Media Matrix: Sexing the New Reality
By Kim Toffoletti


Seeing Through Educatainment
Louise Morley, Quality and Power in Higher Education
By Maryanne Dever


Creating Living Traditions
Ed. Michele Grossman (ed) Blacklines: Contemporary Critical Writing by Indigenous Australians
By Elizabeth Reed


Same the Whole World Over?
Susanne Thorbek and Bandana Pattanaik (eds.) Transnational Prostitution: Changing Global Patterns
By Samantha Shaw


The Ties that Bind: Life Turning Points, Interwoven in Community
Lesley Singh, Cry Ma Ma to the Moon
B
y Marian Redmond