Berlin - Imagine a City by Rory MacLean
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
The first single-volume biography of Berlin, one of the world's great cities - told via twenty-one portraits, from medieval times to the twenty-first century. A city devastated by Allied bombs, divided by a Wall, then reunited and reborn, Berlin today resonates with the echo of lives lived, dreams real ...Show more
Beyond Respectability : The Intellectual Thought of Race Women by Brittney C. Cooper
$48.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
Beyond Respectability charts the development of African American women as public intellectuals and the evolution of their thought from the end of the 1800s through the Black Power era of the 1970s. Eschewing the Great Race Man paradigm so prominent in contemporary discourse, Brittney C. Cooper looks at ...Show more
Billy Wilder on Assignment - Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna by Noah Isenberg (Introduction by, Editor); Billy Wilder; Shelley Frisch (Translator)
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
"A revelation."--Marc Weingarten, Washington Post Acclaimed film director Billy Wilder's early writings--brilliantly translated into English for the first time Before Billy Wilder became the screenwriter and director of iconic films like Sunset Boulevard and Some Like It Hot, he worked as a freelance ...Show more
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
The story of Christine Jorgensen, America’s first prominent transsexual, famously narrated trans embodiment in the postwar era. Her celebrity, however, has obscured other mid-century trans narratives—ones lived by African Americans such as Lucy Hicks Anderson and James McHarris. Their erasure from trans ...Show more
Bohemian London : From Thomas De Quincey To Jeffrey Bernard by Travis Elborough
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
London has always been home to outsiders. To people who won’t, or can’t, abide by the conventions of respectable society. For close to two centuries, these misfit individualists have had a name. They have been called Bohemians. This book is an entertaining, anecdotal history of Bohemian London. A guide ...Show more
Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community 20th Anniversary Edition by Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy, Madeline D. Davis
$71.99 AUD
Category: History
Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold traces the evolution of the lesbian community in Buffalo, New York from the mid-1930s up to the early 1960s. Drawing upon the oral histories of 45 women, it is the first comprehensive history of a working-class lesbian community. These poignant and complex stories show ...Show more
Bound Together - Leather, Sex, Archives and Contemporary Art by Andy Campbell; Amelia Jones (Series edited by)
$55.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Rethinking Arts Histories MUP Ser.
What are the archives of gay and lesbian leather histories, and how have contemporary artists mined these archives to create a queer politics of the present? This book sheds light on an area long ignored by traditional art history and LGBTQ studies, examining the legacies of the visual and material cult ...Show more
Branded by the Pink Triangle by Ken Settering
$34.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult Non Fiction | Reading Level: 13 – 17 years
Before the rise of the Nazi party, Germany, especially Berlin, was one of the most tolerant places for homosexuals in the world. Activists such as Thomas Mann and Albert Einstein campaigned openly for the rights of gay men and women and tried to repeal the law against homosexuality. But that all changed ...Show more
Brazen Hussies: A Herstory by Jean Taylor
$40.00 AUD
Category: History
Brazen Hussies documents the actions, conferences, collectives, publications and demos as well as the stories of feminist activists who took an active role in the WLM in the 1970s. The book also traces the innovative shifts of consciousness and the social and legislative changes that were instigated in ...Show more
Cabarets of Death: Death, Dance and Dining in Early Twentieth-Century Paris by Mel Gordon
$65.00 AUD
Category: History
From 1892 until 1954, three cabaret-restaurants in the Montmartre district of Paris captivated tourists with their grotesque portrayals of death in the afterworlds of Hell, Heaven and Nothingness. Each had specialized cuisines and morbid visual displays with flashes of nudity and shocking optical illusi ...Show more
Camp! - The Story of the Attitude That Conquered the World by Paul Baker
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
By the bestselling author of Fabulosa! and Outrageous!, this reappraisal of camp across time and in all its glorious forms shows how this inescapable part of popular culture has also played an important role in equality movements as a form of protest or resistance. The following things have seemed impos ...Show more
Casa Susanna by Isabelle Bonnet; Sophie Hackett; Susan Stryker (Introduction by)
$90.00 AUD
Category: Trans, Intersex, Gender Diverse & Gender Non-Binary
Brings together a wealth of research and an expansive selection of photographs to create an enduring account of America's first known trans network, Casa Susanna. In the 1950s and 60s, an underground network of transgender women and cross-dressing men found refuge at a modest house in the Catskills reg ...Show more