Hecate's Australian Women's Book Review
Volume 17, Number 1 2005


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Lesbian Art and Feminism: A Review Essay
By Liz Ashburn

Rethinking the Family: Change, Continuity and 'Choice': A Review Essay
Leslie Cannold: What, No Baby? Why Women Are Losing the Freedom To Mother, and How They Can Get It Back, Fremantle, Curtin University Press, 2005; Marg Vandeleur: The Catch; Marilyn Poole, ed. Family: Changing Families, Changing Times; Sarah Cunningham-Burley and Lynn Jamieson, eds.: Families and the State: Changing Relationships, Basingstoke
By Jane Maree Maher

The Black History
By Ruby Langford Ginibi

Living as Australia's Working Poor
Elisabeth Wynhausen. Dirt Cheap: Life At The Wrong End of the Job Market
By Evelyn Hartogh

Sleeping with the Guru
Mary Garden, The Serpent Rising: A Journey of Spiritual Seduction, Revised edition
By Ann Faraday


Not So Desperate Housewives
Lesley Johnson and Justine Lloyd, Sentenced to Everyday Life: Feminism and the Housewife
By Margaret Henderson


Breaking With Insistent Domesticity
Catherine Speck, Painting Ghosts: Australian Women Artists in Wartime
By Maryanne Dever


Traumas of Incarceration
Review of Alwyn Evans, Walk In My Shoes
By Rachael Blair


Revisiting Australian Romance Fiction
Review of Juliet Flesch, From Australia With Love: A History of Modern Australian Popular Romance Novels
By Fiona Giles


From Punk to Prestige
Julie Burchill. The Guardian Columns 1998-2000
By Evelyn Hartogh


Propagating Culture
Katie Holmes, Susan K. Martin, and Kylie Mirmohamadi, eds. Green Pens: A Collection of Garden Writing
By Marian Quartly


The Personal Really Is Political
Sidonie Smith and Kay Schaffer. Human Rights and Narrated Lives: The Ethics of Recognition
By Kylie Cardell


Where Grief Had Begun to Bleed Generations Ago
Larissa Behrendt. Home
By Frances Cruickshank


Correcting Some Guesstimates
Review of Juliet Richters and Chris Rissel, Doing It Down Under: The Sexual Lives of Australians. Allen and Unwin, Crows Nest, 2005.
By Kirsten McLean

True Guilt
Review of Motherguilt: Australian Women Reveal Their True Feelings About Motherhood by Ita Buttrose and Dr Penny Adams, Viking/Penguin, 2005.
By Jo Lindsay