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Tough Enough Arbus Arendt Didion Mccarthy, Sontag, Weil by Deborah Nelson
$41.95 AUD
Category: Gender and Society
This book focuses on six brilliant women who are often seen as particularly tough-minded: Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Diane Arbus, and Joan Didion. Aligned with no single tradition, they escape straightforward categories. Yet their work evinces an affinity of style and philo ...Show more
Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women by Kate Manne
$22.99 AUD
Category: Gender and Society
Male entitlement takes many forms. To sex, yes, but more insidiously to admiration, bodily autonomy, knowledge, power, even care. In this urgent intervention, philosopher Kate Manne offers a radical new framework for understanding misogyny.In clear-sighted, powerful prose, she ranges widely across the c ...Show more
White Feminism by Koa Beck
$32.99 AUD
Category: Gender and Society
A timely and impassioned exploration of how our society has commodified feminism and continues to systemically shut out women of colour. Join the important conversation about race, empowerment, and inclusion with this powerful new feminist classic and rousing call for change. Koa Beck, writer and former ...Show more
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
$19.99 AUD
Category: Gender and Society | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The woman's place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it is ancient, and it is deep The revolutionary writings of Audre Lorde gave voice to those 'outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women'. Uncompromising, angry and yet full of hope, this coll ...Show more
The Panic Years: Dates, doubts and the mother of all decisions by Nell Frizzell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Gender and Society
The Panic Years: something between adolescence and menopause, a personal crisis, a transformation. The panic years can hit at any time but they are most commonly triggered somewhere between the ages of twenty-five and forty. During this time, every decision a woman makes - from postcode to partner, fri ...Show more
The Madwoman in the Attic - The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination by Sandra M. Gilbert; Susan Gubar; Lisa Appignanesi (Introduction by)
$30.95 AUD
Category: Gender and Society | Series: Veritas Paperbacks Ser.
"A feminist classic."--Judith Shulevitz, New York Times Book Review "A pivotal book, one of those after which we will never think the same again."--Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Washington Post Book World A pathbreaking book of literary criticism is now reissued with a new introduction by Lisa Appignanesi that ...Show more
Feminisms: A Global History by Lucy Delap
$39.99 AUD
Category: Gender and Society | Series: Pelican Bks.
Feminism's origins have often been framed around a limited cast of mostly white and educated foremothers, but the truth is that feminism has been and continues to be a global movement. For centuries, women from all walks of life have been mobilizing for gender justice. As the last decade has reminded ev ...Show more
More Than a Woman by Caitlin Moran
$35.00 AUD
Category: Gender and Society
How to be an older woman? Who knows. Being a young woman can be challenging. But it turns out not even a fraction of the bullshit has happened to you by the time you turn thirty. Because your thirties, forties and beyond see you dealing with Real Life, the stuff you never thought would happen to you- gr ...Show more
How to Have Feminist Sex - A Fairly Graphic Guide by Flo Perry
$22.99 AUD
Category: Gender and Society
'Funny, kind, generous and smart - I could have done with the wisdom of Flo Perry far sooner' Dolly AldertonWe talk about feminism in the workplace and we talk about dating after #MeToo, but women's own patriarchal conditioning can be the hardest enemy to defeat. When it comes to our sex lives, few of u ...Show more
Why Women Are Blamed for Everything - Exploring Victim-Blaming of Women Subjected to Violence and Trauma by Jessica Taylor
$32.99 AUD
Category: Gender and Society
'Dr Taylor sets out a compelling case . . . gives voice and agency to women who have experienced trauma and violence' Morning Star She asked for it. She was flirting. She was drinking. She was wearing a revealing dress. She was too confident. She walked home alone. She stayed in that relationship. She ...Show more
What We're Told Not To Talk About (But We're Going To Anyway) by Ali, Nimko
$22.99 AUD
Category: Gender and Society
'Hilarious and heart-breaking at the same time, Nimko has blown apart all taboos, blown apart the echo chamber and included all women in the feminist conversation. Essential reading for everyone' - Scarlett Curtis, author of Feminists Don't Wear Pink 14 countries, 42 women, each with a story no one has ...Show more
Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship by Clementine Ford
$22.99 AUD
Category: Gender and Society
Clementine Ford reports that one of the questions she is most asked in person and online is 'how do I raise my son to be a feminist? How do I make sure he's a supporter rather than a perpetrator?' That is a question that many parents with sons are haunted by. Now that Clem is mother to a baby boy of he ...Show more