Hecate's Australian Women's Book Review
Volume 18, Number 2 2006
Demeter and Persephone: Contemporary Perspectives
Helen Nickas (Ed.) Mothers from the Edge: an anthology. Victoria: Owl Publishing, 2004.
Reviewed by Jena Woodhouse
Don't Bury the Pain, Resolve it
Jennifer Strauss (Ed.) The Collected Verse of Mary Gilmore: Volume 1 1887-1929. The Academy Editions of Australian Literature. St Lucia: The University of Queensland Press, 2004.
Reviewed by Deborah Jordan
Sylvia Martin. Ida Leeson: A Life – Not a Blue-Stocking Lady . Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2006.
Reviewed by Maryanne Dever
Hilary Summy. ‘Peace Angel' of World War 1: Dissent of Margaret Thorp . Brisbane: Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, 2006.
Reviewed by Gail Tulloch
Mrs. Beeton: The Fashioning of a Domestic Goddess
Kathryn Hughes. The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton. London: HarperCollins, 2005. Hilary Summy.
Reviewed by Sharon Bickle
The Best Australian Novel for Years...
Alexis Wright. Carpentaria. NSW: Giramondo Publishing, 2006.
Reviewed by Carole Ferrier
Christina Houen & Jena Woodhouse (Eds). Hidden Desires: Australian Women Writing . Canberra: Ginninderra Press, 2006.
Reviewed by Ann-Marie Priest
Breasts, Breastfeeding, and Cancer: Anecdote and Analysis
James S Olson. Bathsheba's Breast: Women, Cancer & History . Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
Alison Bartlett. Breastwork: Rethinking Breastfeeding . NSW: University of New South Wales Press, 2005.
Reviewed by Rhonda Shaw
Here's One to Burn at the Stake
Marianne Mancusi. A Connecticut Fashionista in King Arthur's Court. New York: Lovespell, 2005.
Reviewed by Julia K. Maurus
Having a Pair: Ovaries and Oratory
Rivka Solomon (Ed.) That Takes Ovaries! New York: Random House/Three Rivers Press, 2002.
Review & Interview by Evelyn Hartogh
Women in State Politics–First Queensland, Now NSW–Four to Go
Deborah Brennan and Louise Chappell (Eds). No Fit Place For Women? Women in New South Wales Politics, 1856–2006 . Sydney: UNSW Press, 2006.
Reviewed by John McCulloch
Annette Marner. Women With Their Faces on Fire . South Australia: Wakefield Press, 2006.
Tessa Morris-Suzuki. Peeling Apples . Canberra: Pandanus Books, 2005.
Cate Kennedy. Joyflight . Queensland: Interactive Press, 2004.
Reviewed by Misbah Khokhar