Global Girls: Find Your Thing by KAREN GEE
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
The world is changing, and across the globe, women are stepping up into positions of influence in some of the biggest corporate organisations, while others are taking the bold, entrepreneurial step of starting out on their own ordinary women doing extraordinary things! Karen Gee leads this anthology wit ...Show more
On Passion (On Series) by Dorothy Porter
$16.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Series: On Ser.
In On Passion celebrated Australian poet Dorothy Porter delves headfirst into the passions, both literary and earthly. We discover the young Dorothy Porter's 'drug of choice' was none other than romantic love and that 'some of the most deeply passionate experiences of [her] life happened between the cov ...Show more
Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage by Rachel E. Gross
$49.95 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
A scientific journey to the center of the new female body. The Latin term for the female genitalia, pudendum, means "parts for which you should be ashamed." Until 1651, ovaries were called female testicles. The fallopian tubes are named for a man. Named, claimed, and shamed: Welcome to the story of the ...Show more
Hairless - Breaking the Vicious Circle of Hair Removal, Submission and Self-Hatred by Bel Olid; Laura McGloughlin (Translator)
$20.95 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
Razors, tweezers, wax and hair removal creams: these are the tools for the initiation rites that signal the passage from girl to woman. Today the only acceptable places for a woman to have hair are on her head (preferably long), her eyebrows (not too wild) and eyelashes (not too sparse). All kinds of co ...Show more
Gender Identity for Kids: Find Yourself, Understand Others and Respect Everybody by Andy Passchier
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
A fun, approachable and easy-to-use guide to gender identity for 7+ readers with colourful illustrations throughout. What is gender and what does it mean to you? What are ways people express their gender? What if you don't feel like the gender everyone says you are? This book is a simple approach to the ...Show more
Dear Prudence - Liberating lessons from Slate.com's beloved advice column by Daniel M Lavery
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Reading Level: very good
Collected wisdom from the internet's best-loved advice columnist.I recently learned from one of my co-workers that my boss gathered everyone together after I was hired and told them that I was nonbinary and used they/them pronouns, which isn't true - I'd been very clear that I'm a trans man who uses mal ...Show more
On Quiet by Nikki Gemmell
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: On Series | Reading Level: near fine
International bestselling author Nikki Gemmell writes on the power of quiet in today's shouty world.Quiet comes as a shock in these troubled times.Quietism means 'devotional contemplation and abandonment of the will ... a calm acceptance of things as they are'. Gemmell makes the case for why quiet is st ...Show more
Growing up Queer in Australia by Benjamin Law
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: Growing Up
'No amount of YouTube videos and queer think pieces prepared me for this moment.’ ‘The mantle of “queer migrant” compelled me to keep going – to go further.’ ‘I never “came out” to my parents. I felt I owed them no explanation.’ ‘All I heard from the pulpit were grim hints.’ ‘I became acutely aware of ...Show more
The First Time I Thought I Was Dying by Sarah Walker
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
A dazzling collection of essays that unpacks our unruly bodies and minds and questions why we are taught to fear and punish them, from an exciting and award-winning new author. We live in a world that expects us to be constantly in control of ourselves. Our bodies and minds, though, have other ideas. In ...Show more
The Novel Project: A Step-by-Step Guide to Your Novel, Memoir or Biography by Graeme Simsion
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
The no-drama novel writing method behind Graeme Simsion's global bestsellersSave the drama for the story.'Writing is easy- all you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.' Variously attributed to Thomas Wolfe, Paul Gallico and Ernest Hemingway, the quote p ...Show more
Sneaky Little Revolutions: Selected essays of Charmian Clift by Charmian Clift
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
‘I know it’s a daring suggestion, but I’ll make it anyway.’ Charmian Clift was a writer ahead of her time. Lyrical and fearless, her essays seamlessly the personal and the political. In 1964, Charmian Clift and her husband George Johnston returned to Australia after living and writing for many years i ...Show more
Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith
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Category: Literary Studies
No subject is too fringe or too mainstream for Zadie Smith's insatiable curiosity. From social media to the environment, Tarantino to Jay-Z to Knausgaard, she has endless fascination and the boundless wit, insight and wisdom to match. In Feel Free, pop culture, high culture, social change and political ...Show more