Hecate's Australian Women's Book Review

Volume 19, Number 1 2007

 

 

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Mapping

By Jena Woodhouse

 

Digging Deep

Kathleen Mary Fallon. Paydirt. Crawley , WA : UWA Press, 2007.

Reviewed by Alison Bartlett

 

Translating Lives

Mary Besemeres and Anna Wierzbicka (Eds). Translating Lives: Living with Two Languages and Cultures. Brisbane : University of Queensland Press, 2007.

Reviewed by Kate Stevens

 

Modes of Connection

Gail Jones. Sorry. Vintage, 2007.

Reviewed by Angela Meyer

 

Hybrid Histories

Peta Stephenson, The Outsiders Within: Telling Australia's Indigenous–Asian Story . Sydney : University of New South Wales Press, 2007.

Sally Bin Demin. Once in Broome. Broome: Magabala Books, 2007.

Reviewed by Fiona McKean

 

Journey Through Murky Water

Kate Grenville. Searching for the Secret River . Melbourne : Text Publishing, 2006.

Reviewed by Shannon Breen

 

Lifting History's Veil

Kim Wilkins. Rosa and the Veil of Gold . HarperCollins, 2005.

Reviewed by Elise Croft

 

Sequined Hearts and Ostrich Feathers: Tales from Tightropes of Life.

Stephanie Green. Too Much, Too Soon. Canberra : Pandanus Books, 2006.

Catherine Rey. The Spruiker's Tale . First published under the title, Ce que racontait Jones . Paris , 2003. NSW: Giramondo, 2005.

Reviewed by Misbah Khokhar

 

There's No Business Like Dough Business

Roberta Perkins and Frances Lovejoy. Call Girls: Private Sex Workers in Australia . University of Western Australia Press, 2007.

Reviewed by Fiona Bucknall

 

Scripting Motherhood

Tina Miller. Making Sense of Motherhood: A Narrative Approach. Cambridge : CUP, 2005.

Reviewed by Marie Porter

 

What's In a Name?

Rhyll McMaster. Feather Man. Blackheath NSW: Brandl & Scheslinger, 2007.

Reviewed by Rachel Slater

 

Keeping Afloat

Susan Sheridan and Shirley Dally. Twenty Years: Women's Studies at Flinders 1986–2006. Adelaide : Lythrum Press, 2006.

Reviewed by Claire Tanner

 

Of Roses, the Risqué, and Risk

Miriel Lenore. In the Garden . Kent Town, SA: Wakefield Press, 2007.

Gina Mercer. Handfeeding the Crocodile . Lauderdale , Tasmania : Pardalote Press, 2007.

Patricia Sykes. Modewarre: Home Ground. Melbourne : Spinifex Press, 2004.

Reviewed by Alison Lambert