Feminist Fables

There was once a man who thought he could do anything, even be a woman. So he acquired a baby, changed its diapers and fed the damn thing three times a night. He did all the housework, was deferential to men, and got worn out. But he had a brother, Jack Cleverfellow, who hired a wife, and got it all done.

- The Tale of Two Brothers

Feminist Fables represents an ingenious reworking of fairytales. Greek and Sanskrit mythology, mixed with the author's original material and vivid imagination. This book is an indispensible feminist classic.

Her imagination soars to breath-taking heights . . . she has the enviable skill of writing stories that are as entertaining as they are thought-provoking.

- Kerry Lyon, Australian Book Review

Each tale works against lazy credulity, each line characterised by a pithy feistiness that unseats assumptions of 'proper' story-telling and more particularly its ends.

- Jennifer Cooke, Australian Bookseller and Publisher

Suniti Namjoshi has three other books published by Spinifex Press,St Suniti and the Dragon, Building Babel and Goja

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Read the abstracts from thePolitics of Cyberfeminism Conference at which Suniti Namjoshi and other Spinifex authors Susan Hawthorne, Renate Klein, Dale Spender, Rye Senjen, Jane Guthrey, Beryl Fletcher and Suniti Namjoshi were speakers at, on Saturday 21 September 1996 at Deakin University.