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Returns and refunds

Returns Frontlist titles: returns accepted within 12 months of the release date (New Release titles on website). Booksellers must return books in mint condition and pay the cost of the return freight. Booksellers will be credited for the returns, however no payments will be made. Backlisted books are nonreturnable.

Spinifex Press

Spinifex is an independent feminist press publishing innovative and controversial feminist books with an optimistic edge. Spinifex, our namesake, is an Australian desert grass that holds the earth together.

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My Sister Chaos
Lara Fergus

$24.95

Just Released

You will not elude me. I will measure your every dimension, I will trace your smallest lines. I will undo you from the inside. You will feel it like waves running across your...

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Unspeakable
Betty McLellan

$27.95

Unspeakable is available exclusively as an eBook through the Spinifex eBook website.

This is a book about speech and the silencing of speech; about who gets to speak and who does not; about who is l...

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My Grandmother
Fethiye Çetin

$23.95

JUST RELEASED

An urgent, passionate memoir of the author’s discovery of her Muslim grandmother’s true Armenian Christian identity.

When Fethiye Çetin was growing up in the small Turkish town of...

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Remember the Tarantella
Finola Moorhead

$14.95

Only available as an eBook!

Remember The Tarantella is a remarkable work. It’s learned and frivolous, female not feminine, silly and serious. Written in several strands of narrative, story does not ...

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The World According to Monsanto
Marie-Monique Robin

$34.95

Winner of the Rachel Carson Prize and the result of a three-year investigation across four continents, The World According to Monsanto tells the shocking story of agribusiness giant and world’s...

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Not For Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution And Pornography
Christine Stark & Rebecca Whisnant (ed.)

$34.95

A 1985 Canadian report on the sex industry in that country reported that women in prostitution suffer a mortality-rate forty times the national average. —Sheila Jeffreys

As an activist, I explain...

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Staying Alive
Vandana Shiva

$34.95

Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of Vandana Shiva’s classic with a new edition, with a new introduction by the author. Shiva links the violation of nature with the violation and...

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Trauma Trails, Recreating Song Lines: The Transgenerational Effects of Trauma in Indigenous Australia
Judy Atkinson

$29.95

Shortlisted, The Australian Awards for Excellence in Educational Publishing, 2003

I was running a workshop in the Kimberleys, and in the circle a woman began to speak from a place of deep pain and...

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Defiant Birth
Melinda Tankard Reist

$27.95

In the face of widespread discrimination against the disabled and a eugenic culture which pathologises disability and crushes diversity, comes a new book which radically challenges the status quo.

D...

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Eco-sufficiency and Global Justice: Women Write Political Ecology
Edited by Ariel Salleh

$39.95

As the twenty-first century faces a crisis of democracy and sustainability, this book brings academics and alternative globalisation activists into discussion.

Through studies of global...

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Earth's Breath
Susan Hawthorne

$22.95

Breath is an origin story before breath is non-existence

Cyclonic storms inform the still eye of Earth's Breath. It's an eye that radiates out from the personal to the communal, tracking its...

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Soil Not Oil
Vandana Shiva

$29.95

A must-read for anyone who takes the future of the planet seriously, Soil Not Oil dares us to imagine a world where people matter more than profits.

Vandana Shiva brilliantly reveals what connects h...

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Getting Real
Edited by Melinda Tankard Reist

$34.95

From advertising and merchandising to Bratz and Voodoo Dolls to the Henson affair, Getting Real puts the spotlight on the sexualisation and objectification of girls and women in the media, popular ...