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  1. After Stalinism: women in Europe

    BARBARA EINHORN is the author of Cinderella Goes to Market, a book on the experiences of women in ... opportunity to reconceptualise the conditions for women's empowerment or for a society based on social ... University, principally in the Women's Studies Centre, and is also associated with the School of European ...

  2. Focus on Asia at Sydney Film Festival

    the power of either of these films. Based on a folktale, it is a familiar story of a young woman ... of Saigon is asked to star in a movie about the war, and Leaves and Thorns (India), set in a village ... in Kerala where four young women stand up to male aggression. This year's festival retrospective ...

  3. Jean Bailey

    Australian Women and served on its executive for many years. As a teacher, Jean was active in the NSW ... Kooris. With the advent of the Vietnam War, Jean was out raising funds, collecting signatures, going on ... that this must never be allowed to recur, and her lifelong belief in the equality of women, led her in ...

  4. Sweet Honey's 20-year journey

    Still on the Journey Sweet Honey in the Rock's 20th anniversary album Review by Carla Gorton ... "Viva South Africa, Viva!" Hundreds of concert goers were on their feet with their fists in the ... Australia two years ago. Their tour this time, following on the ANC election victory in South Africa, will ...

  5. Radio highlights

    which deals in blood instead of boots?" Brecht wrote this play on the eve of the second world war ... Jack". Jack spent much of his youth on the streets of the Cross, as well as in boys' homes. He ... and seals are drawing tourists to the island. Lynne Malcolm presents a feature on this remarkable ...

  6. Celebrations as Mandela takes over

    was on the sandy plains of this peninsula that the first battles of the epic wars of resistance were ... sitting of the National Assembly on May 9. Celebrations, formal and informal, took place throughout the ... country, beginning with the first sittings of the provincial legislatures and election of premiers on May ...

  7. Under construction: the global empire

    dangerous. While billions were spent uselessly on defence during the Cold War, the upside was that no place ... Dr Susan George is well known for her extensive writing on the causes of hunger in the Third World ... 18th century, the gap between the poor and the rich nations was about 2 to 1. After World War II this ...