Hecate's Australian Women's Book Review
Volume 19 No 2 2007

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Uncanny Beauty: Interpreting the Portraits of Julie Dowling
Strange Fruit: Testimony and Memory in Julie Dowling's Portraits 21 July — 14 October 2007, Ian Potter Museum of Art.
Reviewed by Varga Hosseini

Sovereign Subjects
Aileen Moreton-Robinson. Sovereign Subjects: Indigenous Sovereignty Matters. Allen & Unwin, 2007
Reviewed by Fiona Nicoll

Mythical Tales and Perilous Psalms
Elizabeth Stead. The Gospel of Gods and Crocodiles. St. Lucia: U of Queensland P, 2007.
Reviewed by Shanthini Pillai

Private Desires
Sara Knox. The Orphan Gunner. NSW: Giramondo Publishing, 2007.
Reviewed by Liz Bissell

Living Politics
Margaret Reynolds. Living Politics. St Lucia: U of Queensland P, 2007.
Reviewed by Mary Crawford

The Invisible Ladies Step Out
Jean Stewart. Scribblers: A Ladies Literary Society in Brisbane, 1911.Privately published: J & D Stewart, 8 Acworth Street, Kenmore, Brisbane 4069. (2007).
Reviewed by John McCulloch

Not Quite the ‘End of America’?
Naomi Wolf. The End of America. Chelsea Green Publishing, 2007.
Reviewed by Laura Brunner

The Domestic Sublime in New Australian Writing
Susan Midalia. A History of the Beanbag (and other stories) . UWA Press, 2007; Nicolette Stasko. The Invention of Everyday Life. Black Pepper, 2007.
Reviewed by Frances Cruickshank

The Poison of History
Marcella Polain. The Edge of the World. Fremantle Press, 2007
Reviewed by Jasna Novakovic