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spinifex Press
spinifex Press is an independent feminist publisher. We publish fiction, poetry and non-fiction by a diverse range of authors. Subject areas include radical feminism, Indigenous cultures, lesbians, violence against women, transgenderism, ageism, autobiography, biography, prostitution, surrogacy and many other contemporary topics.
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FeMInIsM, PAssIon AnD WoMen’s LIBeRAtIon Renate Klein and susan Hawthorne (eds)
What was it like to participate in the Women’s Liberation Movement? What made millions of women step forward from the 1960s onwards and join it in different ways? Many of the 56 women from 14 countries, now over 70, were there. #NotDeadYet
• The best way to learn the untold history of the Women’s Liberation Movement.
• Humour, trauma, lyrical, political punch, unheard stories.
• International in scope. • #NotDeadYet is spreading like wildfire.
DoUBLetHInK
A FeMInIst CHALLenGe to tRAnsGenDeRIsM Janice G. Raymond
In an age when falsehoods are commonly taken as truth, this book illuminates the ‘doublethink’ of a transgender movement that is able to define men as women, women as men, he as she, dissent as heresy, science as sham, and critics as fascists. • Internationally recognised author, US based. • The expert on this subject and author of The
Transsexual Empire reviewed in The New York
Times.
• A controversial subject, clearly explained in a relaxed style. • The best informed and most up to date book in the field.
ReLeAse DAte: 07/2021 IsBn: 9781925950328 RRP (AUD): $34.95 FoRMAt: PB, eBook, 446pp RIGHts: World CAteGoRY: Social Science, Women’s Studies ReLeAse DAte: 10/2021 IsBn: 9781925950380 RRP (AUD): $34.95 FoRMAt: PB, eBook, 300pp RIGHts: World CAteGoRY: Non-fiction
DetRAnsItIon
BeYonD BeFoRe AnD AFteR Max Robinson
Max Robinson goes beyond the ‘before’ and ‘after’ of the transition she underwent and takes us through the processes that led her to transition to get relief from her distress, and to detransition as she discovered feminist thought and community. • A short book that sets out reasons for transitioning and then detransitioning. • Compares transition with other kinds of plastic surgery and body modification as part of an
‘assimilation industry’. • She asks who benefits from transgender medicine and who has to bear the cost of these interventions?
• A clear critique of patriarchy.
oUt oF eDen
Cheryl Adam
Pregnant, abandoned, homeless, Maureen battles to survive a Swedish winter until she meets a mysterious woman. Threatened with deportation, Maureen learns who her real friends are when she is investigated because of links to a suspected criminal.
• Second in the Eden trilogy. • Cheryl Adam tells a rollicking and poignant good story. • Interesting, well drawn characters who leap off the page. • On homelessness and single motherhood set in 1960s
Australia and Sweden.
tHe KInDness oF BIRDs
Merlinda Bobis
An oriole sings to a dying father. A bleeding-heart dove saves the day. A crow wakes a woman’s resolve. Owls help a boy endure isolation. Cockatoos attend the laying of the dead. There are always birds in these stories that pay homage to kindness. • Multiple prize-winning author, including Christina
Stead Award Winner.
• Previous novels translated into Spanish and Tamil. • Linked stories that cross cultures and times.
• Gail Jones writes that she has a distinctive voice in
Australian literature.
ReLeAse DAte: 09/2021 IsBn: 9781925950403 RRP (AUD): $24.95 FoRMAt: PB, eBook, 200pp RIGHts: World CAteGoRY: Non-fiction ReLeAse DAte: 04/2021 IsBn: 9781925950267 RRP (AUD): $29.95 FoRMAt: PB, eBook, 291pp RIGHts: World CAteGoRY: Fiction ReLeAse DAte: 05/2021 IsBn: 9781925950304 RRP (AUD): $26.95 FoRMAt: PB, eBook, 272pp RIGHts: World ex Philippines CAteGoRY: Fiction
