On the Front Foot - The Rise of Tasmanian Women's Cricket by Jacqui Triffitt
$59.99 AUD
Category: Sport
The story of women's cricket in Tasmania is one of perseverance and passion. And it's a history of firsts, including Lily Poulett-Harris who founded organised women's cricket in Australia, and the Tasmanian team that played in the first interstate women's cricket match.Underpinning the journey are the t ...Show more
Personal Score: Sport, Culture, Identity by Ellen van Neerven
$34.99 AUD
Category: LGBTI & Queer Studies
Award-winning writer Ellen van Neerven plays football from a young age, learning early on that sport can be a painful and exclusive world. The more they play, the more they realise about sport’s troubled relationship with race, gender and sexuality – and question what it means to play sport on stolen, s ...Show more
Running by Lindsey A. Freeman
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sport | Series: Practices Ser.
In Running, former NCAA Division I track athlete Lindsey A. Freeman presents the feminist and queer handbook of running that she always wanted but could never find. For Freeman, running is full of joy, desire, and indulgence in the pleasure and weirdness of having a body. It allows for a space of freedo ...Show more
Surf Like A Woman: Becoming World Champ when women weren't welcome on the waves by Pauline Menczer
$34.99 AUD
Category: Lesbian & Bi Biography / Memoir
A memoir with deeply feminist themes detailing the challenging and inspiring life of Pauline Menczer, World Surfing Champion and star of the hit documentary, Girls Can't Surf. In the 80s and 90s, surf culture was toxic, especially towards women. But Pauline Menczer - a dirt-poor, chronically ill, freck ...Show more
Sweat: A History of Exercise by Bill Hayes
$24.99 AUD
Category: LGBTI & Queer Studies
A New Yorker Best Book of the yearAn Esquire Best Nonfiction Book of 2022 From Insomniac City author Bill Hayes, "who can tackle just about any subject in book form, and make you glad he did" (SF Chronicle)-a cultural, scientific, literary, and personal history of exercise, now in paperback. Exercis ...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
'Til It's Done by Matildas
$14.99 AUD
Category: Sport
The team that makes us proud.We stand behind you and stomp and cheer.We're an army of green and gold.We forget about everything else,As we see history unfold.The Commbank Matildas sent the whole country into a dizzying football fever in 2023.Recalling that sensational moment in history, this book celebr ...Show more