Bee

Abstract

This is another, but more light-hearted, recent production of the feminist movement in Australia, in this case being funded by the National Advisory Committee for I.W.Y.

All the contributors and editors are women. The book has aesthetic and emotional appeal, and it will be a great pity if prejudice against women or against feminism deprives it of its fair share of critical attention and sales.

There is a successful blending of visual art and poetry, so that reading on two levels is possible - coffee-tablebook perusal or in-depth study of the poems.

The works of the three artists, Anneke Silver, Gay Woodworth and Anne Willis, maintain their characteristic styles, and at the same time achieve reasonable integration through the use of a unifotm format. Woman is the dominating theme of the sketches, in moods ranging from heroism and brightness, through submission and somnolence to despair.