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Gertrude Green
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last updated 19 Mar 2008

Non-fiction

• Debra Adelaide: A Bright and Fiery Troup: Australian Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century.
  

• Rita Arditti, Renate Klein and Shelley Minden (editors): Test Tube Women: What Future for Motherhood? 1989.
  

• Diane Bell: Daughters of the Dreaming.
  

• Diane Bell and Pat Caplan: Gendered Fields: Women, Men and Ethnography.
  

• Diane Bell: Generations: Grandmothers, Mothers and Daughters.
  

• Diane Bell: Ngarrindjeri Wurruwarrin: A World That is, Was, and Will Be.
  

• Gloria Bowles and Renate Duelli Klein: Theories of Women’s Studies.
  

• Pam Ditton and Diane Bell: Law: the Old and the New.
  

• Miriam Dixson: The Real Matilda.
  

• Lee Fleming: To Sappho, My Sister: Lesbian Sisters Write About Their Lives.
  

• Anne Game and Rosemary Pringle: Gender at Work.
  

• Patricia Grimshaw, Marilyn Lake, Ann McGrath and Marian Quartly: Creating a Nation.
  

• Susan Hawthorne and Renate Klein (editors): Angels of Power and Other Reproductive Creations.
  

• Susan Hawthorne and Renate Klein (editors): Australia For Women: Travel and Culture.
  

• Susan Hawthorne & Renate Klein (editors): Cyberfeminism: Connectivity, Critique and Creativity.
  

• Susan Hawthorne and Bronwyn Winter (editors): September 11, 2001: Feminist Perspectives.
  

• Susan Hawthorne: The Spinifex Quiz Book: a Book of Women’s Answers.
  

• Susan Hawthorne: Wild Politics: Feminism, Globalisation and Bio/Diversity.
  

• Sheila Jeffreys: Anticlimax: A Feminist Perspective on the Sexual Revolution.
  

• Sheila Jeffreys: Beauty and Misogyny.
  

• Sheila Jeffreys: The Idea Of Prostitution.
  

• Sheila Jeffreys: The Lesbian Heresy: A Feminist Perspective On The Lesbian Sexual Revolution.
  

• Sheila Jeffreys: The Spinster and Her Enemies: Feminism and Sexuality 1880-1930.
  

• Sheila Jeffreys: Unpacking Queer Politics.
  

• Gisela Kaplan: Spectrum : a Bibliography of Women in Australia, 1945 to the Present.

• Gisela Kaplan: The Meagre Harvest : the Australian Women's Movement 1950s-1990s.

• Renate Klein: Exploitation Of A Desire: Women's Experiences With in Vitro Fertilisation.
  

• Renate Klein (editor): Infertility: Women Speak Out About Their Experiences of Reproductive Medicines.
  

• Renate Klein: Man-Made Women.
  

• Renate Klein and Diane Bell (editors): Radically Speaking: Feminism Reclaimed.
  

• Renate Klein and Deborah Lynn Steinberg: Radical Voices: A Decade of Feminist Resistance from Women's Studies International Forum.
  

• Renate Klein, Janice Raymond and Lynette Dumble: RU 486: Misconceptions, Myths and Morals.
  

• Renate Klein: The Ultimate Colonisation: Reproductive and Genetic Engineering.
  

• Marilyn Lake: Getting Equal: The History of Feminism in Australia.
  

• Betty McLellan: Beyond Psychoppression: a Feminist Alternative Therapy.
  

• Betty McLellan: Help, I’m Living with a Man, Boy.
  

• Julie Rigg (editor): In Her Own Right: Women in Australia.
  

• Robyn Rowland: Living Laboratories: Women and Reproductive Technologies.
  

• Robyn Rowland: Woman, Herself: A Transdisciplinary Perspective on Women’s Identity.
  

• Robyn Rowland: Women Who Do and Women Who Don’t, Join the Women’s Movement.
  

• Jocelynne A. Scutt: The Baby Machine.
  

• Jocelynne A. Scutt: Even in the Best of Homes.
  

• Jocelynne A. Scutt: Growing Up Feminist.
  

• Jocelynne A. Scutt: The Incredible Woman: Power and Sexual Politics volumes 1 & 2.
  

• Jocelyn A. Scutt: The Sexual Gerrymander: Women and The Economics Of Power.
  

• Jocelynne A. Scutt (editor): Singular Women: Reclaiming Spinsterhood.
  

• Jocelynne A Scutt (editor): Taking a Stand: Women in Politics and Society.
  

• Jocelynne A. Scutt: Women and the Law.
  

• Dale Spender (editor): Feminist Theorists: Three centuries of Women’s Intellectual Traditions.
  

• Dale Spender: For the Record: The Making and Meaning of Feminist Knowledge.
  

• Dale Spender: Invisible Women.
  

• Dale Spender: Nattering On The Net: Women, Power And Cyberspace.
  

• Dale Spender: There’s Always Been a Women’s Movement this Century.
  

• Dale Spender: Time and Tide Wait for No Man.
  

• Dale Spender: Women of Ideas and What Men Have Done to Them.
  

• Lynne Spender: Intruders on the Rights of Men: Women’s unpublished heritage.

• Christine Stark and Rebecca Whisnant (editors): Not For Sale : Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography.
  

• Mary Lucille Sullivan: Making Sex Work: Australia’s Failed Experiment With Legalised Prostitution.
  

• Anne Summers: Damned Whores and God's Police.
  

• Melinda Tankard Reist: Defiant Birth: Women Who Resist Medical Eugenics.
  

• Denise Thompson: Flaws in the Social Fabric: Homosexuals in Sydney.
  

• Denise Thompson: Radical Feminism Today.
  

• Denise Thompson: Reading Between the Lines: A Lesbian Feminist Critique Of Feminist Accounts Of Sexuality.
  

• Zohl de Ishtar: Daughters of the Pacific.
  

• Zohl de Ishtar: Holding Yawulyu: White Culture And Black Women's Law.

Fiction

• Marjorie Barnard: The Persimmon Tree and Other Stories.
  

• Barbara Baynton: Bush Studies.
  

• Diane Bell: Evil: A Novel.
  

• Miles Franklin: My Brilliant Career.
  

• Kate Grenville: Dark Places.
  

• Henry Handel Richardson: The Getting of Wisdom.
  

• Susan Hawthorne: The Butterfly Effect.
  

• Susan Hawthorne: The Falling Woman.
  

• Catherine Helen Spence: Clara Morrison.
  

• Laurene Kelly: The Crowded Beach.
  

• Laurene Kelly: I Started Crying Monday.
  

• Laurene Kelly: Still Waving.
  

• Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker): The dawn is at hand: poems.
  

• Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker): Father Sky and Mother Earth.
  

• Christina Stead: For Love Alone.
  

• Christina Stead: The Man Who Loved Children.
  

• Roberta Sykes: Love Poems and Other Revolutionary Actions.
  

• Glenyse Ward: Unna You Fullas.
  

• Glenyse Ward: Wandering Girl.

Indigenous Women's Writing

• Judy Atkinson: Trauma Trails, Recreating Song Lines: The Transgenerational Effects Of Trauma In Indigenous Australia.
  

• Linda Briskman: The Black Grapevine: Aboriginal Activism and the Stolen Generations.
  

• Peggy Brock (editor): Women, Rites and Sites: Aboriginal Women’s Cultural Knowledge.
  

• Fiona Doyle: Whispers of this Wik Woman.
  

• Virginia Huffer: The Sweetness of the Fig: Aboriginal Women in Transition.
  

• Doris Kartinyeri: Kick The Tin.
  

• Chris Kenny: Women’s Business.
  

• The Older Women’s Network (editors): Steppin’ Out and Speakin’ Up.
  

• Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker): We are going.
  

• Doris Pilkington and Nugi Garimara: Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence.
  

• Doris Pilkington: Under The Wintamurra Tree.
  

• Kerry Reed-Gilbert (editor): The Strength of Us as Women: Black Women Speak.
  

• Report of the Aboriginal Women’s Taskforce: Women’s Business.

Anthologies of Women's Writing

• Patricia Clarke and Dale Spender (editors): Life Lines: Australian women’s letters and diaries 1788 to 1840.
  

• Cathie Dunsford and Susan Hawthorne (editors): The Exploding Frangipani: Lesbian Writing from Australia and New Zealand.
  

• Sneja Gunew and Jan Mahyuddin (editors): Beyond the Echo: Multicultural Women’s Writing.
  

• Susan Hawthorn, Cathie Dunsford and Susan Sayer (editors): Car Maintenance, Explosives and Love.
  

• Susan Hawthorne (editor): Difference: Writings by Women.
  

• Susan Hawthorn and Jenny Pausacker (editors): Moments of Desire: Sex and sensuality by Australian feminist writers.
  

• Dale Spender (editor): The Anthology of Australian Women’s Writing.
  

• Dale Spender (editor): Heroines: A Contemporary Anthology of Australian Women Writers.
  

• Dale Spender (editor): Weddings and Wives: Australian women writers on modern marriage.
  

• Dale Spender (editor): Writing A New World: Two Centuries Of Australian Women Writers.
  

• Lynne Spender (editor): Her Selection.

• Elizabeth Webby and Lydia Wevers (editors): Happy Endings: Stories by Australian and New Zealand Women, 1850s-1930s.

Given the multitude of books by and for women, it was a difficult job to get this list together. I am sure that I have overlooked some books, and included others that do not fit the below criteria for inclusion. Please help me make this list more complete by emailing me at hairyharpie@yahoo.com, including a brief description of what your suggested book is about. First, please ensure that your suggestion fits the criteria for inclusion:

• All authors must be Australian women, and the content must be about women and our concerns. All books must also support radical feminist goals.

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