The Mitford Girls' Guide to Life by Lyndsy Spence
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
The six Mitford girls were blessed with beauty, wit and talent, yet they led very distinct, cultural lives and not one sister, except for Diana and Unity, shared the same opinion or ideology. Nancy Mitford was the ultimate tease and her talent for mockery reformed the publishing industry in the 1930s an ...Show more
Bookish Broads: Women Who Wrote Themselves into History by Lauren Marino
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
A boldly illustrated celebration of literary history's most revolutionary, talented women writers Women have written some of our most extraordinary literary works while living in societies and cultures that tried to silence them. These women dared to put pen to paper to express the multifaceted female e ...Show more
The Fat Lady Sings: Black Britain: Writing Back by Roy Jacqueline
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Series: Black Britain: Writing Back Ser.
It is the 1990s, and Gloria is living in a London psychiatric ward. She is unapologetically loud, audacious and eternally on the brink of bursting into song. After several months of uninterrupted routine, she is joined by another young black woman - Merle - who is full of silences and fear.Unable to con ...Show more
The Man They Wanted Me to Be - Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making by Jared Yates Sexton
$27.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
Based on the provocative and popular New York Times op-ed, this memoir alternates between the examination of a working-class upbringing and a cultural analysis of the historical, psychological, and sociological sources that make up the roots of toxic masculinity and its impact on society. As progressiv ...Show more
The Story: Love, Loss & The Lives of Women: 100 Great Short Stories by Victoria Hislop
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Category: Literary Studies
Witty, heartbreaking, shocking, satirical: the short story can excite or sadden, entice or repulse. The one thing it can never be is dull. Now Victoria Hislop has collected 100 stories from her favourite women writers into one volume. Here are Man Booker Prize-winners and Nobel Laureates, feminists and ...Show more
Bombshells - Five Women Who Set the Fifties on Fire by Shar Daws
$42.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
Jean Harlow, the Godmother of Blondes, lit the torch for the blonde bombshell, creating an image and persona that would be passed on for generations to come. Jean's life was cut tragically short at the age of 26, but the flame reignited in the 1950s with the most notorious blondes of all time: Ruth Elli ...Show more
It's up to the Women by Eleanor Roosevelt; Jill Lepore (Introduction by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Reading Level: very good
Written at the height of the Great Depression, It's Up to the Women is Eleanor Roosevelt's advice to women of all ages on every aspect of life. During a time of extreme hardship, she called on women particularly to do their part-cutting costs where needed, spending reasonably, and taking a personal resp ...Show more
A Life in Words: Collected writings from Gallipoli to the Melbourne Cup by Les Carlyon
$39.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
The collected writing of one of Australia's most admired authors and journalists, Les Carlyon. 'Les Carlyon has died, and Australia has lost one of its greatest wordsmiths.' Greg Baum, The Age 'He's been called Australia's Damon Runyon, but that tag is far too limiting to do him justice. Certainly his ...Show more
Signs and Wonders: Dispatches from a time of beauty and loss by Delia Falconer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
The celebrated, Walkley Award-winning author on how global warming is changing not only our climate but our culture. Beautifully observed, brilliantly argued and deeply felt, these essays show that our emotions, our art, our relationships with the generations around us – all the delicate networks that ...Show more
The Right to Sex by Amia Srinivasan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
We still do not know how to talk about sex. The current debate about sexual entitlement, objectification, rape culture or pornography fixates on the idea of consent as an objective frame through which to view our sexual encounters. Yet stripped of morality and ethics, consent is a blunt tool, of limited ...Show more
Seeking Asylum: Our Stories by Asylum Seeker Resource Centre
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Category: Literary Studies
The voices Australia should hear This beautifully illustrated hardback captures the stories of those who have lived the experience of seeking asylum. In their own voices, contributors share how they came to be in Australia, and explore diverse aspects of their lives- growing up in a refugee camp, study ...Show more
Griffith Review 74: Escape Routes by HAY, ASHLEY - Beejay Silcox
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Category: Literary Studies
Sometimes, we all need to get away...Griffith Review 74: Escape Routes plots the course of our daydreams, our transformations and our jailbreaks. It takes us across borders and through open and opening minds to places once out of reach. As restrictions lift and confines ease, it lights out for new terri ...Show more