Australia for Women

An indispensable book for anyone travelling in Australia who wants to understand how women have contributed to the culture and the history. With contributions from Indigenous writers on land, culture and life and from women who trace their heritage to one of the many waves of migrants over more than 200 years. From landscape to literature, from the history of feminism to women’s involvement in film, theatre and the visual arts, from myth to music this book shows a different side of travelling in Australia.

Renate Klein was born in Zurich, Switzerland and has degrees from universities of Zurich, London and the University of California (Berkeley). She is known internationally for her work on reproductive technologies and information technologies. She has spoken to parliamentary committees and on TV, radio and print media about ethical issues in reproductive medicines. Her books include the international bestseller Test Tube Women (1984, co-editor; translated in German and Japanese). Her other books include: Theories of Women's Studies (1983, co-editor with Gloria Bowles), Man Made Women (1986, co-author), The Exploitation of a Desire (1989, Deakin University Press, author), Infertility (1989, author, translated into German), Radical Voices (1990, co-editor with Debbie Steinberg), Angels of Power (1991) RU 486: Misconceptions, Myth and Morals (1991, co-author); 1994 Australia for Women: Travel and Culture/ Australien der Frauen: Reise und Kultur  (co-editor with Susan Hawthorne, translated into German). She is co-editor with Diane Bell of, Radically Speaking: Feminism Reclaimed (1996), with Susan Hawthorne of CyberFeminism (1999), . She has a forthcoming book Radical Reckonings. Renate Klein admits that the joys of dog companionship came to her after establishing herself as a writer and academic. With Jan Fook, she co-edited A Girl's Best Friend: The Meaning of Dogs in Women's Lives (2002)  and with Jan Fook and  Susan Hawthorne of Cat Tales: The Meaning of Cats in Women's Lives (2003) and HorseDreams: The Meaning of Horses in Women's Lives (2004).  She has been Associate Professor of Women's Studies at Deakin University, Melbourne She says of herself that she still cares passionately about social justice for women, particularly in the area of reproductive and cyber technologies, but her dog, River made her laugh and cry and experience pure joie de vivre.Susan Hawthorne is the author of seven collections of poetry, two chapbooks and a verse novel. Her collection Cow (2011) was shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Poetry Award in the 2012 New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards as well as being a finalist in the 2012 Audre Lorde Lesbian Poetry Award (USA). Earth’s Breath was shortlisted for the 2010 Judith Wright Poetry Prize. She has been the recipient of two international residencies: in 2013 from the Australia Council for the Arts for six months to write Lupa and Lamb, the BR Whiting Library in Rome; and in 2009 a four month residency for Arts Queensland and the Australia Council to Chennai, India to write Cow. Her work has been published in Australia and internationally in anthologies and literary magazines, in the annual Best Australian Poems (three times) and broadcast on Radio National Poetica (twice).She is the author of a verse novel, Limen (2013) and a novel, The Falling Woman (1992), which was a Top Twenty Title in New Zealand’s Listener Women’s Book Festival and selected as one of the Year’s Best Books in The Australian.Her non-fiction includes The Spinifex Quiz Book (1993) shortlisted in the Australian Educational Awards (and translated into German and Spanish) and Wild Politics (2002) selected as one of the Year’s Best Books in the Australian Book Review. Her most recent non-fiction book is Bibliodiversity: A Manifesto for Independent Publishing (2014), which has been translated into French and Arabic.She is the co-editor of numerous anthologies, including September 11, 2001: Feminist Perspectives (2002), CyberFeminism (1999) and Angels of Power (1991).She is also a publisher and Adjunct Professor in the Writing Program at James Cook University, Townsville. In 2015 she received the George Robertson Award for her service to the publishing. industry.

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