New books by two Australian feminist authors, namely Helen Garner and Geraldine Brooks have recently been published. Both being writers of fiction and non-fiction, these most recent works are novels. The titles are “The Spare Room” by Helen Garner and “People of the Book” by Geraldine Brooks.
Our library holds several titles by these women, including, by Geraldine Brooks “Nine Parts of Desire: the Hidden World of Islamic Women” and “The First Stone: Some Questions about Sex and Power” by Helen Garner, a controversial book about two sexual harassment cases at Melbourne Uni in the nineties. Related to this are two more titles in our library collection. They are “Bodyjamming” edited by Jenna Mead and “Generation f: Sex, Power and the Young Feminist” by Virginia Trioli. These women oppose Helen Garner’s views about third wave feminists as expressed in “The First Stone ” and their books are responses to it and the debate that grew as a result.
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-Jo
