Gender, Sexuality and LGBTQIA+

The start of World War 2 changed women's lives and their place in Australian society forever. Thousands of women ventured where few had gone before - into the services and...

50th ANNIVERSARY EDITION - now a Virago Modern Classic with a new introduction by Alexandra Harris 'Full of dignity, courage and humour, and as fresh and insightful as the day...

The biographies of four women entwined by elements of excitement, historical events, culture, humour and adventurous lifestyles, illustrate that they are far from being ordinary. Bernice's words. 'a great place...

The world is a fraught place for the contemporary female. Working mothers are still expected to make their children's costumes for the school play, despite the fact that home economics...

Brimming with vivid memories, gossip, humble reflections, tales of courageous acts and political intrigues, and strategies for new generations of women. Rather than locating "the woman leader" as the isolated...

Winner, Young Designers Award, Australian Publishers Association Design Awards (Jenny Grigg) 1996 'The myriad variations on feminist belief all revolve around equality of oportunity and freedom of choice: choice to...

Feminism is currently at an impasse. Both the liberation feminism of the 1970s and the more recent feminism of difference are increasingly faced with the limitations of their own perspectives....

' Rebecca meets The Secret History . Gloriously dark, gloriously gothic ' Sara Collins, Costa First Novel Award-winning author of The Confessions of Frannie Langton For 150 years, Caldonbrae Hall...

The astonishing true journey of Trudi Kanter, an Austrian Jew, whose courage, resourcefulness, and perseverance kept both her and her beloved safe during the Nazi invasion is a rediscovered masterpiece....

This anthology connects recent debates in feminist theory to debates in traditional philosophical aesthetics. Among the topics covered are: gender totemism; the oppositional gaze in terms of the black female...

A scorchingly sexy and inclusive YA romantasy that is sure to be the talk of TikTok! An assassin, a soldier, a prince . . . and a deadly game of...

Want to be a Virtuoso of Variations? Keep the Gal of Your Dreams Coming Back for More? Do You Have a Sense of Humor? Straight from the mouths of world...

Shockingly honest, richly detailed, and pulling no punches, Friends and Enemies traverses the highs and lows of Barbara Amiel's storied life in journalism and high society. From her early childhood...

A compassionate, funny and beautifully written exploration of contemporary womanhood - the book may have 'panic' in the title, but Nell's words calmed and soothed me deeply.' - Daisy Buchanan...

Queer Postcolonial Narratives and the Ethics of Witnessing is a critical study of the relationship between bodies, memories and communal witnessing. With a focus on the aesthetics and politics of...

In "Life's Too Short for Tantric Sex", author Kate Taylor offers couples a range of techniques to help them have fun and fulfilling sex that doesn't take all day (or...

Written in spare, elegant prose, 'THE SEXUAL LIFE OF CATHERINE M.' is the autobiography of a well-known Parisian art critic who likes to spend nights in the singles clubs of...

The book titled Death of a Jewish American Princess: The True Story of a Victim on by the author Shirley Frondorf. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...

The oldest profession continues to flourish, on the streets and in brothels and bedsits, expensive hotels and suburban semis. This is an investigation - neither sentimentalized not glamorized - into...

From Tunde Oyeneyin, the massively popular Peloton instructor, fitness star, and founder of SPEAK, comes an empowering, inspiring book about how she transformed grief, setbacks, and flaws into growth, self-confidence,...

Throughout the twentieth century and long before, hundreds of determined British women defied the social conventions of their day in order to seek adventure and influence on the world stage....

This insightful, inspiring devotional examines the lives of specific women in the Bible and how their wants, needs, and feelings relate with those of women today. Each devotion includes a...

The book titled Wild Heart: a Life by the author Suzanne Rodriguez. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Julia Kristeva is a linguist, psychoanalyst and cultural theorist. This text provides a representative selection of her writings since the mid 1970s. The essays are arranged around major Kristevan themes:...

The long-awated biography of one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. Although blessed with a magnetic personality and musical brilliance, Britten was wracked by depression and self-doubt. An...

The book titled Charlotte Mew and Her Friends: With a Selection of Her Poems by the author Penelope Fitzgerald. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

In ancient Greece, from the sixth century onwards legilation was introduced in Athens and a number of the more advanced city states which was specifically aimed at the restriction of...

The book titled Constance Garnett: A Heroic Life by the author Richard Garnett. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This collection of articles by feminist writers explores the different ways in which images of women in advertising, magazines, fine art, fashion, and pornography continue to influence commonly-held perceptions of...

Feminist thinking on cinema has been dominated for some time by approaches which emphasise how meanings are produced in films, and how this process both hinges on sexual difference and...

The book titled Decolonizing the Subject: Politics of Gender in Women's Autobiography by the author Sidonie Smith. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

In this rewarding book, Laurie A. Finke challenges assumptions about gender, the self, and the text which underlie fundamental constructs of contemporary feminist theory. She maintains that some of the...

This major new book is the most up-to-date account of current feminist debates, written by some of the world's leading feminist thinkers. The 1980s saw a devastating critique of the...

This text reviews feminist art strategies as they emerged in the late 1980s and early 1990s in America and the UK. It draws together the views of prominent practitioners, critics,...

This book is part of the 'Photography: Critical Views' series. The series sets out to cross disciplinary boundaries in order to situate photography in its intellectual context. 'Public Bodies/Private States'...

Discusses the images of women in art, films, and literature, social attitudes towards women, and changing perceptions of sexual roles.

In this provocative book, Susan Bordo untangles the myths, ideologies, and pathologies of the modern female body. Bordo explores our tortured fascination with food, hunger, desire, and control, and its...

The book titled Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice and Mind by the author Mary Field Belenky. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

How have women artists taken possession of the female body? What is the relationship between looking and embodiment in art made by women? In a series of original readings of...

The impact of women artists on the contemporary art movement has allowed a powerful and innovative feminist reworking of traditional approaches to the theory and history of art. Feminism and...

Explores the position of women in the classical Hollywood narrative, the construction of the spectator's desire in pornography and the implicit male bias in psychoanalysis oriented film theory. This book...

What is about about women in their forties and beyond that seems to enrage - almost everyone? In the last few years, as identity politics has taken hold, middle-aged women...

This work presents the stories of two remarkable men and an extraordinary woman, and how they lived in an age when gayness was reviled and outlawed. Paul Bailey's interest in...

The influential masterwork that launched the American Goddess movement is even more popular and relevant than ever- a bestselling spiritual classic. This brilliant overview of the growth, supression, and modern-day...

What does it mean to be a moral subject and to affirm one's moral identity? Does feminist moral philosophy enlighten the nature of moral identity generally or only that of...

The book titled In Celebration of Women by the author Helen Exley. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

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