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Melinda Tankard Reist (www.melindatankardreist.com) is an author, speaker, media commentator, blogger and advocate for women and girls. She is known for her work addressing harms to women and girls through sexualisation, objectification, violence, pornography, trafficking. She is author/editor of four books including Getting Real: Challenging the Sexualisation of Girls (Spinifex Press, 2009), the biggest selling title for Spinifex, and Big Porn Inc: Exposing the harms of the global pornography industry (Spinifex Press, 2011, co-edited with Dr Abigail Bray).Melinda’s frequent media appearances have included ABC Q&A and The Gruen Sessions.Melinda is co-founder of the grassroots campaigning movement, Collective Shout: for a world free of sexploitation, exposing corporations, advertisers and marketers who objectify women and sexualise girls to sell products and services.Melinda is an ambassador with World Vision Australia, Compassion and The Raise Foundation. She is also named in the Who’s Who of Australian Women and the World Who’s Who of Women. Other works by Melinda Tankard ReistGiving Sorrow Words (2000)Defiant Birth: Women Who Resist Medical Eugenics (2007)Getting Real: Challenging the Sexualisation of Girls (2009)Other works by Abigail BrayHélène Cixous: Writing and Sexual Difference (2004)Body Talk: A Power Guide for Girls (2005) with Elizabeth Reid Boyd

"This is by far the best and most significant of these recent books. It comes from Spinifex, a feminist press in Australia, where radical feminism is prospering rather more than in the U.S. (Spinifex was recently profiled by Barry, 2016). With 40 solid chapters, this is the richest such feminist collection since Laura Lederers (1980) Take Back the Night: Women on Pornography and/or Diana Russells (1983) Making Violence Sexy: Feminist Views on Pornography." Robert Bannon in Dignity: A Journal on Sexual Exploitation and Violence