Frankfurt Book Fair Highlights
Our latest catalogue showcases books by authors from Australia, Zimbabwe, Sweden, Canada, Italy, Mexico, India and the US. Their books will not only broaden your horizons and knowledge of feminism, but also open new ways of understanding the world, our histories, and the connections between women wherever we live. Watch the Title Showcase video above or download the catalogue today.
COMING SOON
What do you do when you fall in love with your next-door neighbour? You peer at each other through a hole in the fence and eventually climb over.
Sybil is a member of The Good-Hearted Gardeners, a Society for Well-Meaning Efforts for the Betterment of Language and the Salvation of the Planet, which her lover, Demo, is allowed to join. It’s funded by MI5, who ask them to monetise and weaponise the English language. Soon afterwards they discover that English is even more widespread than anyone had thought. Even the birds and the fish, the cows and the kangaroos can speak it – when they choose. The Good-Hearted Gardeners set about trying to talk to anyone – crows, magpies, robins, goldfish, cows, horses, rats, mice – who will talk to them.
With climate change and technology gone mad, what’s in store is a frightening scenario that threatens everyone – humans, animals, plants. Can the headlong rush to extinction be halted?
When the birds, and the cows and the horses and the mice and all the rest come together, much is made possible. But at what cost? Will the planet and its inhabitants be saved?
A comedic allegory for our future.
NOVEMBER 2023 | ISBN 9781922964007 | Paperback | 112 pages | 148 x 210 mm
What do you do when you fall in love with your next-door neighbour? You peer at each other through a hole in the fence and eventually climb over.
Kajsa Ekis Ekman
Translated by Kristina Mäki
A brilliant examination of the intellectually incoherent and anti-feminist character of gender identity theory
In this groundbreaking book, Swedish feminist and Marxist, Kajsa Ekis Ekman, traces the ideological roots of the new definition of woman. She shows how biological determinism is back – but minus the biology. So too are stereotypes: womanhood is no longer about having a vagina, but pink ribbons and dolls. Masculinity is no longer synonymous with having a penis but with war and machines. We are told being a woman is a gender identity that anyone can claim and that can only be determined by one’s own feelings.
In countries such as Norway, Canada, Argentina, Australia and New Zealand, self-identity laws have already been enacted that give anyone the right to change his or her legal sex. At the same time, the industry for gender reassignment surgery is growing at an unprecedented pace. Seven out of ten teenagers who seek interventions are now girls.
The new definition of sex has been hailed as progressive. But is it really? What ideology is expressed by it? What consequences will it have? And for whom?
FEBRUARY 2023 | ISBN 9781925950663 | Paperback | 152 x 228 pp | 380 pages
A brilliant examination of the intellectually incoherent and anti-feminist character of gender identity theory from Swedish journalist Kajsa Ekis Ekman
‘You ask too many questions, Matilda. It’s not becoming in a girl.’
But Matilda is full of questions. It’s the late 1800s in rural New South Wales and Matilda, as the oldest daughter, is expected to cook, clean and help Mama with her brothers and sisters. But her inquiring mind will not be stilled nor her rebellious spirit tamed. When frustration overcomes her, she finds escape in the land she loves and in her imagination, nourished by books.
In the rust red landscape, both striking and harsh, and against the backdrop of World Wars and a changing Australia, Matilda is torn between her desire for freedom and allegiance to her growing family. With their never-ending demands, and crises of poverty, drought and illness, what Matilda really wants seems further from her reach. Will she ever see the sea? Have a vocation and earn her own money? Have the time to read?
This sweeping novel brings to life the injustices faced by women in the 1800s and 1900s. Punctuated with betrayal and loyalty, hope and despair, love and loss, Matilda and her family come alive showing how the grip of patriarchy tried to strangle the ambitions of women, but there were women who refused to give up.
OCTOBER 2023 | ISBN 9781925950854 | Paperback | 320 pages | 229 x 152 mm
Powerfully evoking time and place, a compelling portrait of an extraordinary woman in an ordinary man's world.
—Noni Hazlehurst
Robyn Bishop spins a gripping story, infusing it with true grit and realism. The Rust Red Land is an engaging and intriguing story filled with complex characters and rural Australian themes that remain relevant today.
—Books+Publishing
All I’ve ever wanted is the deep sense of belonging associated with knowing and being connected with who and where I’ve come from.
Penny Zagarelou-Mackieson always knew she was adopted. But she didn’t know she was swapped at birth.
After a lifetime grappling with issues of identity and belonging, outlined in her earlier book Adoption Deception, Penny discovered that her natural mother, according to her adoption records, is genetically unrelated to her. Penny’s family reunion of two decades was based on falsehoods. Her ancestry is Greek, not Celtic-Anglo as she was led to believe.
So begins Penny’s new quest to learn about her origins. She confronts a shocking legacy of babies misidentified in the heyday of Australia’s forced and closed adoptions and appalling medical record-keeping – meaning many adoptees may never know their true origins.
Penny’s quest leads her to court seeking legal recognition of her true identity, involving her ‘de-adoption’ – termination of the Adoption Order imposed on her in infancy.
This remarkable story of one woman’s determination to uncover the truth and restore her dignity reveals human rights violations inherent in adoption. Penny questions continuing laws and practices that cement stigmatising secrecy and harm adopted people, arguing for wide-reaching reforms.
26 OCTOBER 2023 | ISBN 9781925950793 | Paperback | 152 x 229 mm | 232 pages
A remarkable story of one woman’s determination to uncover the truth and restore her dignity reveals human rights violations inherent in adoption.
Decolonizing feminism always prioritizes the collective liberation of Indigenous and other women and names patriarchy as the central component of women’s oppression.
In Not Sacred, Not Squaws, Cherry Smiley analyses colonization and proposes a decolonized feminism enlivened by Indigenous feminist theory.
Building on the work of grassroots radical feminist theorists, Cherry Smiley outlines a female-centered theory of colonization and describes the historical and contemporary landscape in which male violence against Indigenous women in Canada and New Zealand is the norm. She calls out ‘sex work’ as a patriarchal colonizing practice and a form of male violence against women.
Questioning her own uncritical acceptance of the historical social and political status of Indigenous women in Canada – which she now recognizes as male-centred Indigenous theorizing – she examines the roles of culture and tradition in the oppression of Indigenous women and constructs an alternative decolonizing feminist methodology.
This book is a refreshing feminist contemporary challenge to the patriarchal ideology that governs our world and a vigorous and irreverent defence against the attempts to silence Indigenous radical feminists.
APRIL 2023 | ISBN 9781925950649 | Paperback | 257 pages
This book is a refreshing contemporary feminist challenge to the patriarchal ideology that governs our world and a vigorous and irreverent defence against the attempts to silence Indigenous radical feminists.
