Joanne Fedler

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Joanne Fedler (born 1967) is an Australian author. She is the author of 10 books including Secret Mothers' Business; When Hungry, Eat; and Your Story: How to Write It so Others Will Want to Read It.

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Biography

Fedler was born in South Africa and has studied law in both South Africa and the US. She has law degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand [1] and from Yale [2] which she attended on a Fulbright scholarship in 1993. She was a lecturer in law at the University of the Witwatersrand [1] from 1994–1995. She lives in Sydney with her husband and two children.[ citation needed ]

Books

Her first novel, The Dreamcloth, was published by Jacana Media [3] in 2005. The Dreamcloth was nominated for the Sunday Times Fiction Prize in 2006. [4] [5] Jennifer Crocker wrote that "The Dreamcloth marks a watershed moment in South African fiction." [6] [7]

In 2006, her book Secret Mothers' Business [8] was published in Australia by Allen & Unwin. [8] It has also been published in South Africa [3] [9] and the United Kingdom, [10] [11] with rights sold in Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Croatia. To date it has sold over 600,000 copies worldwide.

She is also the author of Things Without A Name, a contemporary love story set in the world of rape and domestic violence, published by Allen & Unwin (2008); [8] When Hungry, Eat (2010), Allen & Unwin; It Doesn't Have to Be So Hard: the Secrets to Finding and Keeping Intimacy, co-authored with Graeme Friedman, (2012) Random House; The Reunion, published by Allen & Unwin (2012); and Love in the Time of Contempt: Consolation for Parents of Teenagers, Hardie Grant Books (2015). [12]

Her latest book, Your Story: How to Write It so Others Will Want to Read It was published by Hay House in 2017.

Activism

Joanne Fedler has made appearances at the Sydney Writers Festival, [13] the Jewish Sydney Writers Festival, the Dymocks Literacy Foundation Great Debate, [14] and the Gidget Foundation [15] to raise money for post-natal depression.

In 1996, she set up a legal advocacy centre [16] to end violence against women of which she was the CEO until 1998.

Joanne was also one of the founding directors of Moonstone Media, [17] which produces and publishes branded books designed to enhance organisations and businesses profiles in their markets. In 2006, Moonstone Media published A Pocketful of Sequins, [18] a book of inspirational quotes by people whose lives have been affected by breast cancer for the three national breast cancer organisations in Australia to raise money for breast cancer research.

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Notes

  1. 1 2 "Law - Wits University".
  2. ↑ Yale University
  3. 1 2 Jacana
  4. ↑ Sunday Times Lifestyle, 23 April 2006
  5. ↑ "The Times – Interact with us". Archived from the original on 31 August 2005. Retrieved 15 June 2007.
  6. ↑ Cape Times, 30 September 2005
  7. ↑ Cape Times
  8. 1 2 3 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 5 July 2007.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  9. ↑ Jacana Media
  10. ↑ Ebury, as The Secret Mothers' Club
  11. ↑ Ebury Publishing home
  12. ↑ "Love in the Time of Contempt by Joanne Fedler | Hardie Grant Publishing". HardieGrant. Retrieved 11 July 2017.
  13. ↑ Sydney Writers' Festival – May 19–25, 2008
  14. ↑ "Dymocks Literacy Foundation | Home". Archived from the original on 21 June 2007. Retrieved 4 February 2020.
  15. ↑ "the price is right lost at gidgetevents.org". Archived from the original on 3 July 2007. Retrieved 4 February 2020.
  16. ↑ Home – TLAC
  17. ↑ moonstone media [ permanent dead link ]
  18. ↑ "Pocket Full of Sequins :: National Breast Cancer Centre (NBCC)". Archived from the original on 26 April 2007. Retrieved 4 February 2020.

Bibliography

Books
  1. Your Story: how to write it so others will want to read it , Hay House, 2017
  2. It Doesn't Have To Be So Hard: the Secrets to Finding and Keeping Intimacy, forthcoming Random House, 2012. Co-written with Graeme Friedman (The Fossil Artist).
  3. When Hungry, Eat, Allen & Unwin, 2010.
  4. Things Without A Name, Allen & Unwin, 2008.
  5. Secret Mothers' Business, Allen & Unwin, 2006.
  6. The Dreamcloth, Jacana Media, 2005.
  7. 25 Essential Things you should do before getting married, sixtyminutebooks, 2003.
  8. An Endless Ball of String, The Life Story Project, Sydney, 2004.
  9. My Maria, The Life Story Project, Sydney, 2003.
  10. Ideological Virgins and Other Myths: six principles for legal revisioning, co-editor, Law Race and Gender Unit, UCT and Justice College, 2001.
  11. Reclaiming Women's Spaces: New Perspectives on Violence against women in South Africa, Nisaa Institute for Women's Development, co-editor with Yoon Park and Zubeda Dangor, 2000.
  12. Tshwaranang National Legal Manual for Counsellors of Raped and Battered Women, Progress Press, Johannesburg, South Africa 1999.
Academic articles
  1. 'The idea of changing places in intercultural communication,' Communitas Journal for Community Communication and Information Impact, (with Ilze Olckers), vol 6, 2001 at 1.
  2. 'Affirmative Action for South African women through the Employment Equity Act: will women benefit economically?' Lola Press, April 2000.
  3. 'Violence against women,' in chapter on Equality, LAWSA, Butterworths, 1997.
  4. 'Pornography: Reasonable and Justifiable Limitations,' in The Constitution of South Africa from a Gender Perspective, edited by Sandra Liebenberg, The Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape, 1995 at 143.
  5. 'A Feminist Perspective on Pornography,' in Between Speech and Silence: Hate Speech, Pornography and the New South Africa, edited by Jane Duncan, FXI and IDASA, 1996 at 44.
  6. 'The Right to Life,' in Constitutional Law of South Africa loose-leaf service, eds Chaskalson et al., 1996, Juta & Co.
  7. 'Lawyering Domestic Violence through the Prevention of Family Violence Act: an evaluation after a year in operation,' 1995 South African Law Journal 112 at 231.
  8. 'Legal Education in South Africa,' 72 Oregon Law Review (1993) at 999.
  9. 'On Dual Becomings: Towards Womanist Lawyering,' 1994 Agenda 21.
  10. 'The Reasonable Man in a Post-Apartheid South Africa,' 3 Wits University Student Law Review 1991 at 1.
  11. 'The Inequitable Contract and the Role of South African Courts,' 2 Wits University Student Law Review 1990 at 56.
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