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Legions of the brave, Rhonda Pritchard
Serial Survivors: Women’s Narratives of Surviving Rape Jan Jordan The Federation Press, $49.99, ISBN 9781862876798 It could easily be a Jimmy McGovern script. A “good husband and father of three children”, with a secret lover on the side, stalks and…
Tagged with: Issue 84, Jan Jordan, Rhonda Pritchard, Summer 2008, The Federation Press
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review
In and out of the mincer, Jan Jordan
Accusation: A Wife’s Story Mary Fielding (with Jane Westaway) Longacre Press, $29.95, ISBN 1877361151 ”J’accuse!” (I accuse!). Just over 100 years ago Emile Zola’s article in Le Figaro on the Dreyfus Affair appeared beneath this bold headline, and helped to…
Tagged with: Autumn 2006, Issue 73, Jan Jordan, Jane Westaway, Longacre Press, Mary Fielding
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
The Darke side, Jan Jordan
Flight of the Dancing Bird: One Woman’s Courageous Fight to Reclaim her Life Tanjas Darke HarperCollins, $24.95, ISBN1869503961 Imagine a dancing bird, pirouetting through the trees, the light catching the golden tips of feathered wings as it soars into the…
Tagged with: HarperCollins, Issue 54, Jan Jordan, Tanjas Darke, Winter 2001
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Catherine Healy: Giving sex workers a voice
Working Girls Jan Jordan, Penguin, Auckland, 1991, $29.95 In 1987 when the Prostitutes Collective was established largely in response to the AIDS pandemic, it was necessary to turn to overseas experience for guidance. It was all very interesting reading about…
Tagged with: Autumn 1992, Catherine Healy, Issue 4, Jan Jordan, Penguin
Posted in Gender, Health, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Gender, Health, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
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