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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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Seeking Palestine: New Palestinian Writing on Exile and Home
Penny Johnson, Raja Shehadeh (eds)

$32.95

Forthcoming July 2012

How do Palestinians live, imagine and reflect on home and exile in this period of a stateless and transitory Palestine, a deeply contested and crisis-ridden national project...

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The Lace Makers of Narsapur
Maria Mies

$32.95

Now Available

The Lace Makers of Narsapur is a sensitive and groundbreaking study of women at the beginning of the process of globalisation. Maria Mies in this book, first published in 1982, looks a...

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The Unfinished Revolution: Voices from the Global Fight for Women's Rights
Minky Worden (ed)

$36.95

Now Available

The Unfinished Revolution tells the story of the global struggle to secure basic rights for women and girls, including in the Middle East where the Arab Spring raised high hopes, but t...

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Anticlimax: A feminist perspective on the sexual revolution
Sheila Jeffreys

$29.95

Feminist classic re-release

“A rigorous, savvy contemporary intellectual history … Read this book.” – Andrea Dworkin

The sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s is remembered as a time of great...

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Fish-Hair Woman
Merlinda Bobis

$29.95

Now Available

How much can the heart accommodate? Death and love, an enemy and a sweetheart, war and an impassioned serenade, and more. Only four chambers, but with infinite space like memory...

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Valence: Considering War through Poetry and Theory
Susan Hawthorne

$10.00

Valence: Considering War through Poetry and Theory is a powerful rage against the brutality and greed of war; against the particular suffering of women in war; against our indifference but more...

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Remember The Tarantella
Finola Moorhead

$27.95

Feminist classic re-release

It started with a challenge from the late Christina Stead: it’s very difficult to make an interesting novel with no men in it at all.

Released to acclaim in 1987...

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The Abbotsford Mysteries
Patricia Sykes

$24.95

The Abbotsford Convent becomes more than the setting, the grey mince-meat walls, of this collection. It emerges as presence, intimate and familiar as well as constraining and forbidding. But is is ...

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Bite Your Tongue
Francesca Rendle-Short

$29.95

Mrs Angel Rendle-Short said that a book given to her daughter, Francesca, as an English textbook at school would teach her to be a permissive rebel. (Courier Mail, 1975)

There are some things you...

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Big Porn Inc
Melinda Tankard Reist and Abigail Bray (Eds.)

$36.95

The unprecedented mainstreaming of the global pornography industry is transforming the sexual politics of intimate and public life, popularising new forms of hardcore misogyny, and strongly...

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Cow
Susan Hawthorne

$24.95

Cow leaps and flies into imaginative realms carrying mythology and language.Cow creates the universe, the galaxies and travels through the sky as a herd of stars.Cow writes love poetry and ponders ...

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Unmaking War Remaking Men: How Empathy Can Reshape Our Politics, Our Soldiers and Ourselves
Kathleen Barry

$34.95

One day at a beach Kathleen Barry witnessed an accidental death. Seeing how empathy drew together the bystanders – strangers until that moment – in shared human consciousness, she asked: “Why do...

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The Village and the World: My Life Our Times
Maria Mies

$34.95

In this autobiography, Maria Mies packs in seventy-seven years of life: from the small German village of her childhood, to the world of the Indian subcontinent. Sociologist and Women’s Studies...

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Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality
Gail Dines

$34.95

Pornland takes an unflinching look at pornography and its effect on our lives, showing that today’s pornography is strikingly different from yesterday’s Playboy. As porn culture has become...

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My Sister Chaos
Lara Fergus

$24.95

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 floorboards, you will...

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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

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 Maden, she knew...

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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 ...