Published in four countries and into several reprints, this book has been called ‘a must read’. The information in this book is important and Sandra Coney’s incisive critique of the use of HRT should have been listened to years ago. It is groundbreaking and gives details on the benefits and risks of medical intervention in ‘the mid-life woman’. Sandra Coney argues that healthy mid-life women...

Margaret Preston on Australian women artists; Miles Franklin on suffragist Rose Scott; Eleanor Dark on Caroline Chisholm; Kylie Tennant on the future ... Like mirrors reflecting mirrors this book shows the precarious position of women in a country’s history. First published in 1938, the youngest of the contributors, Kylie Tennant, just before her death in 1988 reflected again on the...

What do Halloween, Atlantis, Subaru, the American Presidential elections, the Petticoat Lane markets in London, the ship Titanic and atlases all have in common? Each can be traced to the legends of the Seven Sisters of the Pleiades. Poets, priests, prophets, shamans, storytellers, artists, singers and historians throughout time have all gazed into the night skies and come under their...

Gerrymander sb. US 1868 (f. the family name Gerry) A method of arranging electoral districts so that one party will be enabled to elect more representatives than they could on a fair system. —Oxford Dictionary

Jocelynne Scutt’s insightful analyses of history, politics, and economics pervade this book. Writing across the scholarship on women, she brings to the fore the social and political...