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Welcome to the Spinifex Press eBook website

Spinifex is an independent feminist press publishing innovative and controversial feminist books with an optimistic edge. Spinifex is an Australian desert grass that holds the earth together.
Please check our latest venture Spinifex eBooks, where you can find fiction, poetry and a wide range of non-fiction titles by authors from every continent.

Getting Real: Challenging the Sexualisation of Girls

Bratz dolls, bralettes, explicit advertising and the rise of 'raunch culture' - what does it mean for girls? Getting Real puts the spotlight on the sexualisation and objectification of girls and women in the media, popular culture and society. Girls are portrayed as sexual at younger ages, pressured to conform to a 'thin, hot, sexy' norm. Clothing, music, magazines, toys and games send girls the message that they are merely the sum of their body parts. The effects .....more»»

Remember the Tarantella

Remember The Tarantella is a remarkable work. It's learned and frivolous, female not feminine, silly and serious. Written in several strands of narrative, story does not seem to be the main objective of this novel. The many characters create a space as if reading were a dance party. Private conversations and thoughts are always within earshot of the rhythm of others, like the stamping of feet and the beat of the music. But what is outstanding is the quality of .....more»»

The Silicon Tongue

Through storytelling, writing, audio and video recording, and finally cyberspace, four generations of women explore language, memory and identity. .....more»»

The World According to Monsanto: Pollution, Politics and Power

The result of a remarkable three-year-long investigation that took award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker Marie-Monique Robin across four continents, The World According to Monsanto tells the little-known yet shocking story of this agribusiness giant-the world's leading producer of GMOs (genetically modified organisms)-its new and dubious 'green' face and its problematic PCB- and Agent-Orange-soaked past. Robin reports that, following its long .....more»»

Unspeakable: A Feminist Ethic of Speech

This is a book about speech and the silencing of speech; about who gets to speak and who does not; about who is listened to and who is ignored. In this down-to-earth analysis of the democratic principle of freedom of speech, Betty McLellan insists that, if this prized democratic principle is to have any continuing credibility, free speech must be free for all. Written from the perspective of feminist ethics, Unspeakable focuses on how women are silenced in .....more»»

Wild Politics: Feminism, Globalisation Bio/diversity

Biodiversity as inspiration, challenging the profit motive. Hawthorne decolonizes the Western imagination and provides an audacious vision for socio-ecological sustainabilty. .....more»»