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Gender: Female
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1 y separately published work icon Australian Women's Book Review vol. 12 no. 1 2000 Z1689276 2000 periodical issue
1 Madeleines and Kalamata Olives Barbara Brook , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , Autumn vol. 9 no. 1 1997; (p. 35,43)

— Review of Fetish Lives Gail Jones , 1997 selected work short story
1 Editorial [Australian Women's Book Review, Autumn 1997] Barbara Brook , 1997 single work column
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , Autumn vol. 9 no. 1 1997; (p. i)
1 Spoilt for Choice Barbara Brook , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , December vol. 6 no. 4 1994; (p. 24-25)

— Review of Wishbone Marion Halligan , 1994 single work novel
1 Milk and Honey on the Other Side Barbara Brook , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , December vol. 5 no. 4 1993; (p. 6-7)

— Review of The Toucher Dorothy Hewett , 1993 single work novel ; One More River Brenda Walker , 1993 single work novel
1 Too Many Plots Barbara Brook , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , December vol. 5 no. 4 1993; (p. 13-14)

— Review of Headlines Laurie Bookluck , Debra Adelaide , 1993 single work novel
1 A Recording Angel for the 1990s Barbara Brook , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , March vol. 4 no. 1 1992; (p. 16-17)

— Review of Cosmo Cosmolino Helen Garner , 1992 single work novel
1 Spiky Resistances Barbara Brook , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , September vol. 3 no. 3 1991; (p. 5-6)

— Review of Angels of Power and Other Reproductive Creations 1991 anthology poetry drama short story
1 Spaces in Memory Barbara Brook , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , March vol. 3 no. 1 1991; (p. 7-8)

— Review of Poppy Drusilla Modjeska , 1990 single work novel
1 Splintered Mirrors Barbara Brook , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , September vol. 2 no. 3 1990; (p. 9-10)

— Review of The Best Man for this Sort of Thing Margaret Coombs , 1990 single work novel
1 Untitled Barbara Brook , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: Women's Studies International Forum , vol. 13 no. 3 1990; (p. 275-277)

— Review of Nettie Palmer : Her Private Journal Fourteen Years, Poems, Reviews and Literary Essays Nettie Palmer , 1988 selected work poetry prose criticism review autobiography biography
1 3 y separately published work icon Australian Women's Book Review AWBR Sara White (editor), Michelle De Kretser (editor), Barbara Brook (editor), Michèle Grossman (editor), Barbara Brook (editor), Carole Ferrier (editor), Susan Carson (editor), Shirley Tucker (editor), Carole Ferrier (editor), 1989 Melbourne : Australian Women's Book Review , 1989-1992 Z911078 1989 periodical (62 issues)

Before the establishment of the Australian Women's Book Review, new books on feminist issues from small presses were mainly reviewed by a few small magazines such as Hecate. In the established literary magazines or other mainstream publications such books were reviewed inadequately or not at all. In 1989, hoping to provide a stable periodical for a more comprehensive review of new women's writing from Australia and overseas, Sara White and Michelle de Kretser produced the first issues of the Australian Women's Book Review.

From the first issues, the editors aimed to publish 'accessible, intelligent writing that will offer a range of books by women to a broad readership'. Reviews addressed a range of general areas such as fiction, poetry, history, biography, health, sexuality, social and cultural issues, and literature for children and adolescents. Regular review essays and feature articles provided deeper analyses and special issues have concentrating on geographical regions such as New Zealand, India, Africa and Singapore.

During the 1990s, the Australian Women's Book Review secured several advertisers and sponsors to support production costs and provide payment to contributors. The magazine's publication by the Victoria University of Technology (1992-1997) also provided some security, but the failure of an application to the Literature Board in 1997 caused some concern for the future of the magazine. Closure was avoided when Carole Ferrier offered to publish the Australian Women's Book Review under the auspices of Hecate at the University of Queensland.

Since moving to the University of Queensland, the Australian Women's Book Review has gone online (in 2000) and is now freely available on the internet. It remains the only Australian book review in print or online that is devoted to women's writing.

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