Who are the heroines women look to? Twenty-two Australian writers of fiction, drama, poetry, journalism, TV scripts and non-fiction reflect on their heroines. There are extraordinary women and ordinary women; mothers, detectives, old women, teenagers, sisters, lesbians, rural women, urban women. Dale Spender is the author and editor of over thirty books including the internationally acclaimed, Man Made Language and Women of Ideas, Heroines, Writing a New World and The Penguin Anthology of Australian Women's Writing. She is also the author of Nattering on the Net.