Spinifex Press imprint: 90 books

Holding Yawulyu

White Culture and Black Women's Law

by Zohl dé Ishtar
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016

For two years, Zohl dé Ishtar lived in a one-room tin shed with the women Elders of Balgo. As their "Culture Woman", Zohl assisted the Elders in establishing and coordinating the Kapululangu Women's Law and Culture Centre. Holding Yawulyu: White Culture and Black Women's Law tells the amazing...
by Diane Bell
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1998

This finely textured ethnography weaves written texts with the voices of women and men who struggle to protect their sacred sites. It provides a deeper understanding of lives profoundly affected by two centuries of colonization.

Ngarrindjeri Wurruwarrin

A World That Is, Was, and Will Be

by Diane Bell
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014

In Ngarrindjeri Wurruwarrin, Diane Bell invites her readers into the complex and contested world of the cultural beliefs and practices of the Ngarrindjeri of South Australia; teases out the meanings and misreadings of the written sources; traces changes and continuities in oral accounts; challenges...

Being and Being Bought

Prostitution, Surrogacy and the Split Self

by Kajsa Ekman
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013

Grounded in the reality of the violence and abuse inherent in prostitution—and profoundly affected by the death of a friend to prostitution in Spain—activist and writer Kajsa Ekis Ekman exposes the many lies in the “sex work” scenario in this polemic in which she also criticizes the booming...
by Margaret Somerville
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2000

Reading Body/Landscape Journals is like falling through a faultline, as we respond to poesis, both as poetry and as thought creation. From Pine Gap Women’s Peace Camp and interactions with women across Australia, Margaret Somerville conjures up the landscape inhabited by both Indigenous and white...

Beyond Psychoppression

A Feminist Alternative Therapy

by Betty McLellan
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1995

A guide to therapy that explores the intersection between the personal and the political.

Not for Sale

Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography

by Rebecca Whisnant, Christine Stark
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005

Including the latest research on prostitution and pornography, this essay anthology shows how the sex industries harm those within them while undermining the possibilities for gender justice, human equality, and stable sexual relationships. From sex industries survivors to social activists and theorists...
by Merlinda Bobis
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017

Is it the sun a hole sucking in a bird or Icarus about to singe the sun? Which composes which? The poet asks as she circumnavigates the globe, history, and an inner universe. When it responds, there's the small shudder, the sprawl of a spin, or the quiet before and after a full circle. The eyes catch...
by Anne Ch. Ostby
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013

With insight and brutal honesty, this book paints a vivid picture of some of the world's most vulnerable women and children. Called “women of love,” very young girls make up a workforce tasked with feeding their families by offering their bodies up for sale. It is a tradition practiced for centuries...

The Seven Sisters of Pleiades

Stories from Around the World

by Munya Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005

The legends of the Seven Sisters of the Pleiades that poets, priests, prophets, shamans, storytellers, artists, singers, and historians have told throughout time are retold in this compilation of the stories that have found their inspiration in nine beautiful stars clustered together in the night...

Quilt

A Collection of Prose

by Finola Moorhead
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2002

Award-winning author, Finola Moorhead stitches together essays, reviews and short stories that make an incisive comment of the process of writing.
by Rose Zwi
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 1995

They came from the stetl to a new land, to a new life. Another year in Africa, they said, another year in exile. The old world of pogroms is challenged by their new lives in Africa and the child Ruth is haunted by memories of tragedy and persecution that are not even hers.

Zest for Life

Lesbians' Experiences of Menopause

by Jennifer Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2005

Highlighting how and why the concerns of lesbians are often overlooked during the “change of life,” this book draws on lesbians’ menopausal experiences to illustrate how menopause can be a time to rejoice, not despair. Hormone replacement therapy, health services, body image, and homophobia...

Kath Williams

The Unions and the Fight for Equal Pay

by Zelda D'Aprano
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2001

One of Australia’s most important activists for women’s rights, Kath Williams was a trade unionist and a communist before taking on the mantle of feminist after World War II. With a trade unionist ex-husband who was elected to Federal Politics opposing her left wing campaigns, Kath emerged as...
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