Maybe we should have included recipes?
Dr Susan Hawthorne, Director, Spinifex Press
Last Thursday, the 2012 Australian Educational Publishing Awards were held in Melbourne. Big Porn Inc. was one of three shortlisted entries in the category of Secondary Reference Resource.
The winner of the category was announced as Cookery the Australian Way, 8th edition, by Shirley Cameron and published by Macmillan Education Australia. Big Porn Inc. was Highly Commended in the category which was a fantastic result. (It is always hard to compete against a cook book!)
In the award booklet, the judges had this to say of Big Porn Inc:
“An edgy, modern and refreshing approach to content that is challenging and confronting. Big Porn Inc: Exposing the Harms of the Global Porn Industry is engaging and well-written, offering a variety of ideas, values and confronting issues that can be used across a diversity of subject areas within the curriculum.”
Congratulations on this result which took place after a rigorous judging process, headed by chief judge Dr Mike Horsley of Central Queensland University.
Spinifex Press was represented on the night by Helen and Pauline and they report that there was quite an audience reaction when the book title was read out and displayed on the screen. The fact that there were many audible sniggers throughout an audience of professional publishers underscores a couple of things: it was truly a great result to be shortlisted and receive a high commendation, and secondly that education about pornography and its harm is sorely needed even in so-called educated circles.
You can order Big Porn Inc here
September 14th, 2012 at 12:39 pm
That is fantastic news! It is an excellent book on the subject with so many expert contributors. Everyone interested in the pornography industry or the impact it has on men, women and children should read this book.
September 14th, 2012 at 8:58 pm
Congratulations! It is an amazing, eye opening, true book and should be read by everyone (especially those who have read 50 shades). Well done!
September 15th, 2012 at 11:50 am
Congratulations, Melinda. And I’m so happy for Renate Klein and Susan Hawthorne of Spinifex Press, who attracted a lot of undeserved outrage for publishing Big Porn (as did you). I hope this goes some way towards vindicating their clear-sighted professionalism.