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Australia for Women: Travel and Culture (The Feminist Press Travel Series) | 
 enlarge | Creators: Susan Hawthorne, Renate Klein
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
Category: Book
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 3266387
Media: Paperback
Pages: 434
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.9
ISBN: 1558610952
Dewey Decimal Number: 919.40463
EAN: 9781558610958
ASIN: 1558610952
Publication Date: September 1, 1994
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Amazon.com Review
Australia for Women is a guide to both travel and culture, geared toward the female traveler. Divided into three sections, the book first presents essays, stories, and poems about Australian history, nature, culture, and life with a special emphasis on women's achievements in culture and art. The next section is devoted to the country itself, concentrating on the geography of Australia and offering information about various locales and attractions of particular interest to women. The last section offers a list of useful resources for women travelers, including women's centers, health centers, lesbian centers, cafes, bookshops, galleries, and more. Written by Australian women, Australia for Women gives outsiders the inside track on a vast and fascinating land.
Product Description
Fifty-seven Australian women--including Elizabeth Jolley, Dale Spender, and Ruby Langford--offer fiction, poetry, and essays that present inside information on Australia not available in standard travel books. The volume also features descriptions of women's festivals, publications, bookstores, cafes, galleries, and more.
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About women, by women, for women and men March 25, 2000
saliero (NSW Australia)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
An excellent companion to travels in Australia, either in life or from the armchair. Section 1 is entitled Politics and Daily Life. It includes pieces by women of a variety of ethnic backgrounds, ranging over an extremely eclectic range of topics, from women convicts to racism and politics from koori women's point of view. A reasonable representation of Aboriginal women is present - more than in most collections. Part Two looks at particular places , It is called Cities - Country - Rivers. Some of the pieces are about places well away from the regular tourist path, for example Flinders Island. This is a feminist volume, and includes chapters from lesbian women. Staying and working on organic farms is popular these days. Kaye Johnston's chapter "The revolutionary nature of Lesbian Organic Gardening" tells about her and her partner's project - Moonraker farm in the NSW Southern Highlands. At the end are several listings, some of which may be out of date. More useful is a Recommended Reading section which includes literature, anthologies, poetry and plays, fiction, autobiography, history, - mainly, but not exclusively by women. There is biographical information on each of the contributors. This is a really interesting volume to dip in to, and it is a very valuable companion to Australian cultural life, breaking out of the Crocodile Dundee, sunbronzed Aussie type of stereotype. And, I think, despite the title, there is much for men in here too!
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