is a new book, edited byMary Casey, Denise Donlon, Jeanette Hope, and Sharon Wellfare. Denise Donlon has been involved in the police reconstruction of the face of a young women whose remains were found near Taree in 1987. A reason why this body has never been identified, according to Dr Donlon, is that the body for 12 years was believed by the police to be male. She and her colleagues believe that this assumption of sex of remains is not particularly unusual, especially in relation to archaeological collections. (Source: University of Sydney News, 29 April 1999.)
Izabel Soliman, Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of New England, has written Many Routes One Destination which describes the development of the careers of a group of academic women who are at different levels, in different disciplines, from different ethnic backgrounds and who have different family responsibilities. They have either advanced to the level of professor or are ‘on track’ in doing so. There is also a companion video, Profiles of Successful Academic Women, which addresses issues in research from the perspective of seven academic women at the University of New England who are active in research and who have been successful in attracting research grants. The target audience is academics at the entry level. Enquiries: Fax: (02) 6773 3350 email: isoliman@metz.une.edu.au.
written by two Sydney women Lily Xiao Hong Lee and Sue Wiles, tells the story of three young communist women born in the early years of this century whose lives were changed forever when they were swept up in the now famous Long March of 1934. The different paths they travelled afterwards reveals another side of Chinese women's lives and shows how their idealism and courage carried them day by day through the often treacherous byways of China's political reality. Their hopes may not have been realised, but what they started in their youth has had far-reaching effects on all the women of mainland China. Published by Allen & Unwin.