Hecate's Australian Women's Book Review

Volume 20 No 1 2008

Solving a Critical Difficulty
Katherine Bode - Damaged Men/Desiring Women: Male Bodies in Contemporary Australian Women’s Fiction. Verlag: VDM Verlag Dr. Muller, 2008.
Reviewed by Alison Bartlett

Outside the Razor Wire
Samantha Sirimanne Hyde - The Villawood Express and Other Stories. ACT: Ginnindera Press, 2007.
Reviewed by Claudette Taylor

Canvas to Skin to Country
Jennifer Loureide Biddle - Breasts, Bodies, Canvas, Central Desert Art as Experience. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2007.
Reviewed by Janine Burke

Daughter of the song
Yvette Holt - Anonymous Premonition. St Lucia: The University of Queensland Press, 2008..
Reviewed by Jena Woodhouse

Finding ‘Me’
Irena Sibley - Self Portrait of the Artist’s Wife. Staffordshire, England: Central Park, Vic, Lytlewode Press, c2007.
Reviewed by Kathryn Brimblecombe-Fox

Several Life Histories
Susan Cochrane (with selected writings by Renata Cochrane) - A Black and White Family Album: Mother and Daughter Memoirs of Papua New Guinea 1950s-1970s. Eumundi, Qld, Pacificlink, 2007.
Reviewed by Kerry Heckenberg

Doing It Our Way: Before, During and After Death, Lesbian Feminist Style
Anah Holland-Moore et al - Willing Up and Keeling Over: A Lesbian Handbook on Death Rights and Rituals. The Long Breast Press Collective, Brunswick, Victoria: Long Breast Press, 2007.
Reviewed by Prue Hyman

The (Un)recovered
Deborah Robertson - Careless. Sydney: Picador, 2006.
Reviewed by Rachel Slater

Fairytale Fix
Toni Jordan, Addition. Victoria: The Text Publishing Co, 2008.
Reviewed by Poppy Gee

Eleanor Dark and ‘the Artist’
Marivik Wyndham - ‘A World-Proof Life’: Eleanor Dark, A Writer in Her Times. Sydney: UTSePress, 2007.
Reviewed by Liz Bissell

Fluidity
Ali Smith - Girl Meets Boy. Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2007.
Reviewed by Fiona McKean

Dark Lives
Belinda Burns - The Dark Part of Me. Fourth Estate, 2006.
Reviewed by Chris Broadribb