A fascinating collection of conference papers regarding women's access to justice, and the promises Australia made at the 1995 Beijing World Conference on Women.

Includes pieces on issues such as Equality before the Law, Aboriginal Women and the Law, and Women's Rights and Human Rights, by Hilary Charlesworth, Elizabeth Evatt, Sally Brown, Jocelyn Newman, David Malcolm, Moira Rayner, and...

A scathing analysis of high-tech biomedical reproductive techniques. Women as Wombs provides groundbreaking insights into the debate over reproductive technology and its ethical, legal, and political implications. Raymond asserts that far from being liberatory issues of ‘choice’, these techniques – including in vitro fertilization, surrogacy, and sex selection – are a threat to women’s basic...

This remarkable book charts the effects of the economic boom on women across Asia. Yayori Matsui, one of Japan’s leading journalists, demonstrates how Asian women are confronting rapid economic development which is accompanied by widespread infringement of human rights. Matsui explores the impact of globalization and trafficking of women, sexual violence and so-called ‘development projects’...

Have you ever wanted to join the circus? Wondered what goes on behind the scenes? What trapeze artists think about as they swing through the air? Reading this book lets you become an armchair acrobat. Established in 1991 as a community theatre project to work with survivors of sexual assault, the Women’s Circus has gone on to create innovative shows, toured to China in 1995 and has...