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Letter to the Editor

…the old gender stereotypes are being imposed on women in a way even more dogmatic and rigid than anything that went on in the 1950s or the 1970s.

Sandra Coney’s Letter to the Editor (unpublished) on behalf of radical feminists.

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Ecology of the Book

Susan Hawthorne talk - Ecology of the Book - to the International Alliance of Independent Publishers Conference in Pamplona, Spain.

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Spinifex Press Anthologies

With the recent publication of Not Dead Yet: Feminism, Passion and Women’s Liberation Susan Hawthorne delved through the Spinifex Press catalogue to re-discover all our anthologies. In the process she discovered we’ve published 37 anthologies in 30 years!

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Usha Akella statement from her recent launch

“Why is there a need for feminist poems or literature? Is the proof not in the news we read daily—a violent world of misogyny expressing itself in rapes, the trafficking of children and women and casting a shadow on every sector of human life? Has not every woman or girl-- except a few lucky ones-- felt the breath of patriarchy in the lenses that cloud her vision or the voices that crowd her soul.” Read Usha Akella’s statement at her recent launch for I Will Not Bear You Sons.

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Transgender Body Politics Launch speech by Bronwyn Winter

But the rapidity with which the transgender lobby has risen to a position of political influence and the number and enormity of consequences for women have forced me, albeit kicking and screaming, into taking up this discussion. Heather also perhaps: she tells in her book’s prologue of having “stumbled” into researching and writing on it by accident.

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