The Pink Triangle: Nazi War Against Homosexuals by Richard Plant
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
This is the first comprehensive book in English on the fate of the homosexuals in Nazi Germany. The author, a German refugee, examines the climate and conditions that gave rise to a vicious campaign against Germany's gays, as directed by Himmler and his SS--persecution that resulted in tens of thousands ...Show more
The Queer Sixties by Patricia Juliana Smith (ed.)
$52.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The Queer Sixties assembles an impressive group of cultural critics to go against the grain of 1960s studies, and proposes new and different ways of the last decade before the closet doors swung open. Imbued with the zeitgeist of the 60s, this playful and powerful collection rescues the persistence of t ...Show more
The Right Side of History: 100 Years of LGBTQ Activism by Adrian Brooks
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
The Right Side of History tells the 100-year history of queer activism in a series of revealing close-ups, first-person accounts, and intimate snapshots of LGBT pioneers and radicals. This diverse cast stretches from the Edwardian period to today. Described by gay scholar Jonathan Katz as "willfully cac ...Show more
The Sacred Band: Three Hundred Theban Lovers and the Last Days of Greek Freedom by James Romm
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
From classicist James Romm comes a "striking...fascinating" (Booklist) deep dive into the last decades of ancient Greek freedom leading up to Alexander the Great's destruction of Thebes-and the saga of the greatest military corps of the time, the Theban Sacred Band, a unit composed of 150 pairs of male ...Show more
The Seventies: The Personal, the Political and the Making of Modern Australia by Michelle Arrow
$34.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: 4
In 1970 homosexuality was illegal, God Save the Queen was our national anthem and women pretended to be married to accessthe pill. By the end of the decade conscription was scrapped, tertiary education was free, access to abortion had improved, the White Australia policy was abolished and a woman read t ...Show more
The Stonewall Riots - A Documentary History by Marc Stein
$69.00 AUD
Category: History
On the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary, the most important moment in LGBTQ history--depicted by the people who influenced, recorded, and reacted to it. June 28, 1969, Greenwich Village: The New York City Police Department, fueled by bigoted liquor licensing practices and an omnipresent backdrop of ...Show more
The Story of Sex From Apes to Robots by Philippe Brenot; Laetitia Coryn; Will McMorran (Translator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Sex is everywhere, yet how many of us truly understand it?Our attitudes to sex and sexuality are forever in flux. Driven by pleasure, power, revenge, a desire for children or simply because it isn't allowed, humans have had sex on the brain since pre-civilization. But what do we really know? In The Stor ...Show more
The Suffragettes : Little Black Classic by Various
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Category: History | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'Once they are aroused, once they are determined, nothing on earth and nothing in heaven will make women give way; it is impossible.' A potted history of the women who pioneered feminism and changed the world. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ...Show more
The Symposium by Plato
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
In the course of a lively drinking party, a group of Athenian intellectuals exchange views on eros, or desire. From their conversation emerges a series of subtle reflections on gender roles, sex in society and the sublimation of basic human instincts. The discussion culminates in a radical challenge t ...Show more
The Symposium by Plato
$9.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: very good
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you t ...Show more
The Temple of Perfection : A History of the Gym by Eric Chaline
$39.99 AUD
Category: Sport
Many of us have exercised in a gym; many more of us intend, at some point, to join one. Some work out at the gym with the regularity and zeal once reserved for attending religious services. It is seen as an emblem of modernity, yet the gym's origins date back 2,800 years to the beginnings of Western civ ...Show more
The Wisest Fool - The Lavish Life of James VI and I by Steven Veerapen
$49.99 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
James VI and I, the first monarch to reign over Scotland, England and Ireland, has long endured a mixed reputation. To many, he is simply the homosexual King, the inveterate witch-roaster, the smelly sovereign who never washed, the colourless man behind the authorised Bible bearing his name, or the droo ...Show more