Hecate’s Australian Women’s Book
Review
Volume 17, Number 2 2005
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Out of Place
Mary Ellen Jordan, Balanda: My Year in Arnhem Land.
Crow’s Nest: Allen and Unwin, 2005.
Reviewed
by Liz Reed
Heather Grant, Great Queensland Women: Celebrating the 100th
Anniversary of women's right to vote in Queensland [Brisbane], Qld.: Office
for Women, Dept. of Local Government, Planning, Sport and Recreation, 2005
John McCulloch, The Suffragists: 100 Years of Women's Suffrage in
Queensland Central Queensland: Central Queensland UP, 2005
Reviewed by Deborah Jordan
The Townsville Pool and the Tulip
Were the Best Bits
Helen Reddy, The Woman I Am:
Memoir. Sydney: Harper Collins, 2005.
Reviewed by Melissa Giles
Dining In
Lorraine McGinniss, Feasts and
Friends: Women and Food from Across the World. Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2005.
Reviewed by Debra Dudek
Inside the Life of the Founder of Sisters Inside
Kris Olsson, Kilroy Was Here. Sydney: Bantam, 2005.
Review
by Evelyn Hartogh
True Crime – and True Crime
Effects
Esther McKay, Crime Scene: True Stories from the Life of a Forensic Investigator.
Camberwell: Viking, 2005.
Reviewed by Zoë Morrison
Scripts of Rape
Wendy Larcombe, Compelling Engagements: Feminism, Rape Law
and Romance Fiction. Sydney: The
Federation Press, 2005.
Reviewed by JaneMaree Maher
Detention Centre Traumas
Tammy Norris, Trapped Behind
Bars. Mermaid Waters: Zeus
Publications, 2003.
Reviewed by Tammy Hatherill
Sentenced
at Birth
Brenda
Hodge, Walk On: The Remarkable True Story of the Last Person Sentenced to Death
in Australia. Rowville: The
Five Mile Press Pty Ltd, 2005.
Reviewed by Megan Yarrow
The Media-tion of Feminist Messages
Simone Murray, Mixed Media: Feminist Presses and
Publishing Politics. London: Pluto Press, 2004.
Reviewed by Anthea Taylor
Public and Private Amateurs
Caroline Jordan, Picturesque Pursuits: Colonial
Women Artists and the Amateur Tradition. Carlton: Melbourne University
Press, 2005.
Reviewed by Catherine Speck
Reading Displacement and Privilege
Cynthia Huff, ed. Women’s
Life Writing and Imagined Communities.
New York: Routledge, 2005.
Reviewed by Alison Bartlett
Whose Power, Whose Pleasure?
Sheila Jeffreys, Beauty and
Misogyny: Harmful Cultural Practices in the West. London and New York:
Routledge, 2005.
Reviewed by Kath Albury
A Garden
of Delights
Sara Hardy,
The Unusual Life of Edna Walling. Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 2005.
Reviewed
by Sylvia Martin
Re-viewing the Past
Kate Grenville, The Secret
River. Melbourne: Text Publishing,
2005.
Reviewed by Rachel Slater
Sex and Sad Spaces
Anonymous, The Bride Stripped Bare. Harper Collins, 2003
Sophie Cunningham, Geography. Text Publishing, 2004
Reviewed by Gaylene Perry
Elspeth Probyn. Blush: Faces of Shame. Sydney: UNSW
Press, 2005.
Reviewed
by Alix Winter
The Young, The Old, And
The Motherly: Three Generations of Contemporary Poetry By Australian Women.
Julie Beveridge, Rock n Roll Tuxedo. Brisbane: Julie Beveridge, 2005;
Lesley Singh, Organic Sister. Flaxton: Post Pressed, 2005;
Melissa Ashley, The Hospital for Dolls. Faxton: Post Pressed,
2003.
Reviewed
by Evelyn Hartogh