Living Laboratories: Women and Reproductive Technologies

Self-Help

Rowland, Robyn

Spinifex Press

This publication reinforces the need for ongoing strategies to ensure continuing reform of the legal system in relation to judicial attitudes towards women and includes essays by Professor Kathleen Mahoney, the Honourable Duncan Kerr MP, Justice Elizabeth Evatt, Moira Rayner, Justice Jane Matthews, Chief Judge Waldron, Magistrate Jennifer Coate, Deborah Cass, Justice Deidre O’Connor, Magistrate Jelena Popovich, Beth Wilson, Therese McCarthy, Chief Justice Alastair Nicholson and Dr Jocelynne Scutt.

Women & the Law

Thacker, Anne

Literature & Fiction

Sexuality has been reframed by postmodernism, but this clear discussion of literature, politics, and popular culture provides a useful historical view. The sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s is remembered as a time of great freedom for women, but did the sexual revolution have the same goals as the Women’s Liberation Movement? Was it truly liberation for women or just another insidious form of oppression? This provocative book argues that sexual freedom sometimes directly opposed actual freedom for women. Tracing sexual mores and attitudes from the 1950s through the 1990s, it explores the nature of both straight and gay relationships and offers original and compelling commentary on The Joy of Sex, Lolita, Naked Lunch, and other representations in the literature on sexuality. Newly updated, this edition provides an important critique and insight into these controversial issues.

Anticlimax: A Feminist Perspective on the Sexual Revolution (Spinifex Feminist Classics series)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Jeffreys, Sheila

Psychology & Counseling

A sensitive and groundbreaking study of women, this examination of globalization in India provides a fascinating case study of its effects on female workers in the state of Andhra Pradesh. Originally published in 1982, the book is an important insight into a group dispossessed before the recent economic boom in India. It details the way in which women have been used to produce luxury goods for the Western market while they are not counted as workers or producers in their fragmented workplaces. Instead, these women are defined as nonworking housewives and their work as leisure activity. With rates of pay far below acceptable levels, pauperization is accelerated and their position in Indian society rapidly deteriorates. An invaluable analysis with implications on the global stage, the case of the lace makers continues to instruct on the real impact of industrial development.

The Lace Makers of Narsapur (Spinifex Feminist Classics)

Business & Money

Mies, Maria

Economics

The Fabulous Feminist

Suniti Namjoshi

The Unfinished Revolution: Voices from the Global Fight for Women's Rights

Minky Worden

Making Peace with the Earth: Beyond Resource, Land and Food Wars

Vandana Shiva

RU486: Misconceptions, Myths and Morals

Politics & Social Sciences

Raymond PhD, Janice G.

Klein, Renate

Dumble MD, Lynette Joy

Women's Studies

Not a Choice, Not a Job: Exposing the Myths about Prostitution and the Global Sex Trade

Janice G. Raymond

Drawing on Marxist and feminist analyses, Ekis Ekman argues that the Self must be split from the body to make it possible to sell your body without selling yourself. The body becomes sex. Sex becomes a service. The story of the sex worker says: the Split Self is not only possible, it is the ideal.

Being and Being Bought: Prostitution, Surrogacy and the Split Self

Ekman, Kajsa Ekis

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