Beth Spencer

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photo: self-portrait, backyard, august 2006
(thanks for the camera Jennie!)

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I've recently sold my house and moved into a campervan...
check out my
new blog at

www.vandelicious.com

and if you want to see my old house and garden...
mydeliciousgarden.info
click here for a virtual tour



The Body as Fiction /
Fiction as a Way of Thinking
(PhD thesis )

Cosmetic Surgery,
'Makeover Culture'
and the Privatisation of Bodies
(or 'Are Wrinkles Really All That Ugly?' The Age, October 2006)

'From the "Primitive Droop"
to the "Civilised Thrust":
Towards a Politics
of Body Modification'


'D-Cups, Groin Guards
& Supermodels: 
Writing the Body into History'
Australian Humanities Review -
(note that this one is in two parts) 

Reality Television: Big Brother is Watching / Watching 'Big Brother'
in Australia
(ABC Radio National,
May 2003)

'Bewitched -- Samantha
every witch way but lose' 
about the 1960s sitcom
(The Age, June 2005)

'Another Day, Another Dollar' --
Ability, disability, and the way welfare policy affects all of us (The Age, May 2005)

'I'd like to have permission to be postmodern, but I'm not sure
who to ask..'
Jacket magazine
(about my experiences with
copyright law)

'Reconciliation, &
Those Two Little Words'
Australian Humanities Review,
Sept. 2000

'Xed Again:
or whatever happened
to the Seventies?'
Ozlit - reprinted from Australian Book Review, December 1995, about being part of the generation just younger than the baby boomers. 

Water wisdom?
Healthy gardens,
water restrictions
& healthy communities
(The Age, October 2006)

Print a free copy of
Things in a Glass Box
(poetry book first published by Five Islands Press)

Download the novella
'The Faeries at Anakie Park'
from
How to Conceive of a Girl
(Random House)


'Giving It Away For Free: Spineless Books With Bite'
(The Age, November 2004)

The Beaumont Case Revisited: Who's Watching the Children?
(The Age, January 2006)

The Museum of Fire

Doing the Rock: Uluru, 1984

An interview with The Animist magazine about my fiction


listen to a radio interview (or download it to your mp3 player)

To find out more about the
Body of Words CDs and/or the Box of Words CD-ROM,
and how to order them for your school or library -
visit Dogmedia