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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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.
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 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 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...
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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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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...