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The unprecedented mainstreaming of the global pornography industry is transforming the sexual politics of intimate and public life. This title offers an expose of the hidden realities of a multi-billion dollar global industry that promotes itself as a fashionable life-style choice.

Assembling writers, advocates, and academics, this volume spotlights the sexualization and objectification of girls and women in the media, popular culture, and society. From clothing and music to magazines and toys, this collection explores today's advertising and merchandising techniques and the effects they have on the premature portrayal of girls as sexual beings. Arguing that the sexualization of girls leads to self-destructive behaviors such as eating disorders and self-harm as well as to increased anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem, this account blames corporations, the media, and the sex industry. Informative and spirited, this record will interest critics of the "pornification" movement.

Angelica's twelve -- and no angel, as she says herself. But does she deserve this crazy situation? Why? Why? Why? She punches on the keys of the computer. Why has Dad gone? Why has Mum flipped her lid? And why does that dog howl every night? Doesn't anyone care? In 'Thriller and Me', Angelica sets off with Beth and try-hard Max to find out the truth. She learns heaps: about the RSPCA, back lanes, computers, gays, writing. She realises that understanding is as about as close to the truth as you can get. And that nobody's an angel.

From wet towels on the bathroom floor to carelessness with money or outright abuse, the frustrations of women with immature partners are viewed here as genuine problems to be solved by better communication. The guide's two-part message is that change takes two people--and that it is perfectly reasonable to expect an erring partner to grow up and start acting like an adult. Forty-one scenarios are provided to show women how to maximize communication and what to do when it fails.

In this ground-breaking book, Judy Atkinson skilfully and sensitively takes readers into the depths of sadness and despair and, at the same time, raises us to the heights of celebration and hope. She presents a disturbing account of the trauma suffered by Australia''s Indigenous people and the resultant geographic and generational ''trauma trails'' spread throughout the Country. Then, through the use of a culturally appropriate research approach called Dadirri: Listening to one another, Judy presents and analyses the stories of a number of Indigenous people. From her analysis of these ''stories of pain, stories of healing'', she is able to point both Indigenous and Non-Indigenous readers in the direction of change and healing.

When Eadie Wilt disappears during the flood, everyone thinks she has drowned. But Siddy Church''s granddaughter has more life to live in a household filled with stories and larger-than-life characters.

A poignant history of the women and succeeding generations who established the Lort Smith Animal Hospital. Felicity Jack writes of the achievements and generosity of the many people who have contributed so much to make the hospital a success.

The geek-girl's bible. Ever wanted to take a magic carpet ride around the world? A step-by-step guide to the Internet.

In the tradition of "Thelma and Louise", Melissa Chan's second book is a collection of humorous short stories that revolve around the theme of women's revenge.

An international anthology by feminists working in the fields of electronic publishing, activism, data delivery, multimedia games production, educational multimedia, the virtual campus and virtual reality creation, program development and electronic product, as well as those developing critiques of electronic culture, this collection explores what the possibilities are for feminists and for feminism in cyberspace.

The story of the jugglers, acrobats, tricksters, aerialists, technicians, administrators, musicians, designers, and trainers involved in a community theatre project that was created to work with survivors of sexual assault and performed at the World Women's Conference in Beijing in 1995.

This is a selection of writings by women from Ireland, Australia, England, Canada (and other countries) compiled and edited by Irish-Australian poet, Lizz Murphy. A moving and often amusing collection of fiction, poetry, and autobiography by top-selling and award-winning writers. There is a wildness and daring in these voices. They call up the legions out of the sea and set fires alight. They hang out over garden fences, move restlessly, are beaming, weeping, powerful.

''Travelling Alone Together'': It is 1993 and a group of elderly women are travelling the same route as the explorer Edward John Eyre on his 1840-41 expedition from Adelaide to Albany. Miriel Lenore uses this as the framework for her own explanations of the effects of gender, race, and generation on the individual and society. ''Ruby Camp'': Crisp creates a radically new way of ''knowing'' the East Gippsland bush. Her poetry evokes the Snowy River and it''s environs from a woman''s perspective, as well as the memory the land holds of the massacres of the indigenous Krauatungalung, Ngarigo and Bidwell people.

Dale Spender examines the multimedia boom and its implications in the areas of class, race and gender. She asks: "Will the Internet create virtual sisterhood and how can we use it for good?"

An award-winning joint volume of poetry, Sandy Jeffs invites the reader into the world of schizophrenia, while Deborah Staines evokes the mythic past and the technological future.