Velma Henry has always been a fighter, but she has fallen on hard times. Exhausted by her political struggles, she is undergoing healing in the Southwest Community Infirmary. Confronting her there is Minnie Ransom, spinster and fabled vehicle of the spirit world.

In this collection of fantasy, science fiction and horror stories, the witch, the vampiress, the femme fatale and the vengeful goddess spring to life.

Here, the author writes from her own experiences of bereavement as well as the experiences of others, to offer a sensitive guide to dealing with bereavement both in your own life and in the lives of others.

A critique of sexism in contemporary sport in which the author shows how it affects women and men outside the playing arena, examining how women are excluded from participating in sport on equal terms with men, and how all-male sporting environments foster misogyny and sexual violence.

When Mary Jones' husband died of cancer, she found she had to re-experience her love for him in order to accept his death. This work is an account of the processes of Mary's bereavement, and is intended for others in a similar situation.

The winner of the Australian Booksellers' Award, a novel in which notions and memories and fiction and reality float together as an octogenarian narrates the legend of the silver hands to a woman in her twenties, who in turn passes on a tale to a man who claims it as his own.

This volume examines the phenomenon of laddishness and the cult of the girlie in film, TV, advertising, music, politics, literature and society. It interprets these trends as a nostalgic longing for a pre-feminist society.

Alice Walker provides insights into her attitude to a range of contemporary issues in this set of essays. At the same time she answers her strongest critic (who may be the black writer Terry McMillan) as she reveals how destructive she has been to her.

From the practical demands of having children, to the change of identity it brings, this volume addresses woman's experience of motherhood. This book aims to offer an intimate portrait of motherhood and a window on the creative mind.

This is the story of Julie - the dutiful daughter, the romantic heroine, the perfect wife and mother. But Julie knows she is also the witch, the whore, the madwoman, the lesbian. As her two worlds threaten to collide, she realises she must come to terms with the different aspects of her psyche.

Helen is in conflict with her suburban upbringing, her independence, her creativity, and generations of silence surrounding notions of gender and sexual behaviour. This story is a daring exploration of female sexuality.

Written in 1915, this text is about three male explorers and the utopian female society they stumble upon. This is a community where war, famine and other man-made disasters do not exist.