Two new titles of interest on the subjects of prostitution and body image are as follows:
The Industrial Vagina: the Political Economy of the Global Sex Industry by Sheila Jeffreys
Bodies by Susie Orbach
For further resources check our Ready Reference Wiki on Prostitution and Body Image
Other titles by Sheila Jeffreys in our library are:
The Idea of Prostitution (1997)
The Spinster and her Enemies: Feminism and Sexuality 1880-1930 (1997)
The Lesbian heresy: a Feminist Perspective on the Lesbian Sexual Revolution (1993)
Other titles by Susie Orbach in our library are:
Towards Emotional Literacy (1999)
What’s really going on here? [about interpersonal relations] (1994)
Hunger Strike: the Anorexic’s Struggle as a Metaphor for our Age (1987)
What do Women Want? (1984)
Fat as a Feminist Issue 2 (1982)
Fat as a Feminist Issue (1979)
Categories: Book launch · Uncategorized
Susan Magarey and Kerrie Round are presenting their biography of Dame Roma Mitchell, Roma the First, at the Marion Cultural Centre on the 26th of February.
The event is free, but bookings are essential – see the Marion Council website or call 8375 6855 for more information.
- Danielle
Categories: Book launch
Tagged: Dame Roma Mitchell
Adelaide local Ray Tyndale is launching her new verse novel, Farmwoman, at the University of Adelaide’s Barr Smith Library on 22nd February. Doors open at 6.00 pm for a 6.30 pm start; please RSVP by the 20th of February to raytyndale at internode.on.net. Books will be on sale at the launch, and refreshments will be provided by Fox Creek Wines.
Ray launched her poetry collection Sappho at Sixty at the Women’s Studies Resource Centre in 2007.
- Danielle
Categories: Book launch
Tagged: Ray Tyndale
