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How much has changed? Holly Johnson

From “Real Rape” to Real Justice: Prosecuting Rape in New Zealand Elisabeth McDonald and Yvette Tinsley (eds) Victoria University Press, $60.00, ISBN 9780864736963   It is a fair bet that many good readers have a shaky understanding of what unfolds

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Volume marred by lack of critical analysis, Ruth Butterworth

Claiming the Law: Essays by New Zealand Women in Celebration of the 1993 Suffrage Centennial Elisabeth McDonald and Graeme Austin (eds), Victoria University Press, $29.95 I was brought up in a matriarchy, educated at a girls’ school by confident women

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Conversations on sexuality, Elisabeth McDonald

The Women’s Studies Journal, Vol 8, No 2, 1992, The Women’s Studies Association of New Zealand, $9.95 Ten years ago Catherine MacKinnon announced in Signs that sexuality is the linchpin of gender inequality. This issue of the Women’s Studies Journal gives local substance to this

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