[citation needed] Lowenstein published Weevils in the Flour in 1978, and started writing another book, Dead Men Don't Dig Coal, which was never completed.
Her son, filmmaker Richard Lowenstein, used interviews from Weevils in the Flour, but the title of the unpublished manuscript was used in the film credits.
[citation needed] She was also involved in a number of other organisations over the course of her life, including: New Theatre, the Eureka Youth League, the Victorian Folk Music Society, the Australian Folklore Expedition, the Boree Log Folk Club, the Colonial Bush Dance Society, Pram Factory Flea Market, various alternative and community schools and centres, Friends of the Earth Australia, Arts Action For Peace, the Palm Sunday Committee, the Victorian Secondary Teachers Association, and the Oral History Association of Australia.
The interviews in the collection cover a diverse range of topics, including the social effects of the 1930s Depression and working life in Australia; children's rhymes; Australian folklore; pearl luggers; the Gurindji strike ("Wave Hill walk-off"); and the Patrick's waterside dispute at Melbourne Docklands in 1998.
[3] Lowenstein is chiefly known for her written oral histories, which include The Immigrants 1977, Weevils in the Flour 1978, and Under The Hook (with Tom Hills[3]) 1992.