Hecate’s Australian Women’s Book Review
Volume 18, Number 1 2006
Sunny Side Up: Australia's Top-Down History
Regina Ganter. (With contributions from Julia Martinez and Gary Lee). Mixed Relations: Asian-Aboriginal Contact In North Australia. Crawley, WA: UWA Press, 2006.
Reviewed by Peta Stephenson
Convincing Fictions
Jane Turner Goldsmith. Poinciana. Wakefield Press, 2006.
Reviewed by Jasna Novakovic
Something Is Rotten
Diane Bell, Evil. Melbourne: Spinifex, 2005.
Reviewed by Frances Cruickshank
Living to Tell the Tale: Survival and Connection
Judith McNeil. The Girl With the Cardboard Port. Wollombi, NSW: Exisle, 2006
Reviewed by Janine Little
Black History
Katrina M. Schlunke. Bluff Rock: Autobiography of a Massacre. Curtin University Books, Fremantle Arts Centre Press in partnership with Curtin University of Technology, Fremantle 2005.
Reviewed by Liz Reed
Race Matters
Zohl de Ishtar. Holding Yawulyu: White Culture and Black Women's Law. Spinifex Press, 2005.
Reviewed by Amanda Kearney
On Perfection
Ffion Murphy, Devotion. Freemantle Arts Centre Press, 2006
Reviewed by Jasna Novakovic
Poison and Honey
Maurilla Meehan. The Bad Seed. Wigan, Lancashire: Bewrite, 2005
Reviewed by Majella Stewart
An Unwilling Queen of Crime
Gabrielle Lord. Dirty Weekend. Wakefield Press, 2006
Reviewed by Chris Broadribb
Talking About Policy, Mothering and Work: A Review Essay
Judith Bessant, Rob Watts, Tony Dalton, and Paul Smyth. Talking Policy: How Social Policy is Made. Crow's Nest: Allen and Unwin, 2005; Patricia Grimshaw, John Murphy and Belinda Probert. Double Shift: Working Mothers and Social Change in Australia. Beaconsfield: Circa, 2005; Anne Manne. Motherhood: How Should We Care For Our Children? Crow's Nest: Allen and Unwin, 2005.
Reviewed by JaneMaree Maher
Girl Culture
Bloustien, Gerry. Girl Making: A Cross-Cultural Ethnography on the Processes of Growing Up Female. New York, Oxford: Berghahn, 2003.
Reviewed by Margaret Henderson
Rice Queens and Baked Potatoes
Hsu-Ming Teo. Behind the Moon. Crows Nest, NSW: Allen and Unwin, 2005.
Reviewed by Rachel Slater