100 Nasty Women of History - Brilliant, Badass and Completely Fearless Women Everyone Should Know by Hannah Jewell
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
'Vital reading' STYLIST 'Because 100 Nasty Women is so easy to read and witty, I didn't expect it to be the life changing, important book that I'm discovering it to be' PHILIPPA PERRY * * * * * * These are the women who were deemed too nasty for their times. When you learn about (the very few) women ...Show more
A Bite of the Apple - Behind the Scenes at Virago Press by Lennie Goodings
$34.95 AUD
Category: Feminism & Womens Studies
'The moment I got my job at Virago in 1978 I knew it would be a long time before I would leave. I certainly wouldn't have had the brazen hope then-only twenty-five and very recently new to Britain-that I would ever become the Publisher, but I did know that I had found my home: where books, ideas, politi ...Show more
A Brief History of Misogyny by Jack Holland
$19.99 AUD
Category: Feminism & Womens Studies | Series: Brief Histories Ser.
In this compelling, powerful book, highly respected writer and commentator Jack Holland sets out to answer a daunting question: how do you explain the oppression and brutalization of half the world's population by the other half, throughout history? The result takes the reader on an eye-opening jour ...Show more
A History of Women in 101 Objects: A walk through female history by Annabelle Hirsch
$49.99 AUD
Category: Feminism & Womens Studies
The way we remember the past today remains dishearteningly patriarchal: a place where women have always been oppressed by men, from ancient times to the present day. A History of Women in 101 Objects tells a new story of female history, revealing the evolution of the role women have played in society th ...Show more
A Question of Age: Women, Ageing and the Forever Self by Jacinta Parsons
$34.99 AUD
Category: Feminism & Womens Studies
A beautifully written, searing and powerful examination of women and ageing that you will not be able to put down: intense, compelling, poetic, raging. Warning: this is not a self-help book. Or, a helpful book, necessarily. No one really needs 'help' with ageing. It will happen no matter what we do. Ne ...Show more
Abolition. Feminism. Now. by Angela Davis, Erica Meiners, Beth Ritchie, Gina Dent
$22.99 AUD
Category: Feminism & Womens Studies
In this landmark work, four of the world's leading scholar-activists set out a vital, urgent manifesto for a truly intersectional, internationalist, abolitionist feminism. A powerful work from four activist scholars on the need for our thinking on abolitionism and feminism to intersect. As a politics a ...Show more
Ain't I a Woman by bell hooks
$41.99 AUD
Category: Feminism & Womens Studies | Series: Pluto Classics Ser.
A study of the impact of sexism on black women during slavery, the historic devaluation of black womanhood, sexism among black men, racism within the women's movement and the black woman's involvement with feminism. Hooks refutes the antifeminist claim that black women have no need for an autonomous wom ...Show more
Ain't I a Woman? (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Sojourner Truth
$9.99 AUD
Category: Feminism & Womens Studies | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'I am a woman's rights. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that? I am as strong as any man that is now' A former slave and one of the most powerful orators of her time, Sojourner Truth fought for the equal rights of Black women throughout her life. ...Show more
Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists - A Graphic History of Women's Fight for Their Rights by Mikki Kendall; Anna D'Amico
$32.99 AUD
Category: Feminism & Womens Studies
A bold and gripping graphic history of the fight for women's rights The ongoing struggle for women's rights has spanned human history, touched nearly every culture on Earth, and encompassed a wide range of issues, such as the right to vote, work, get an education, own property, exercise bodily auton ...Show more
Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body by Sara Pascoe
$29.99 AUD
Category: Feminism & Womens Studies
Take a funny and illuminating tour of the female body with award-winning comedian Sara Pascoe. Women have so much going on, what with boobs and jealousy and menstruating and broodiness and sex and infidelity and pubes and wombs and jobs and memories and emotions and the past and the future and themselve ...Show more
Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art by Lauren Elkin
$55.00 AUD
Category: Feminism & Womens Studies
A landmark feminist intervention- a dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and art - and how we think about them. For decades, feminist artists have confronted the problem of how to tell the truth about their experiences as bodies. Queer bodies, sick bodies, racialised bodies, fema ...Show more