A History of Women in 101 Objects: A walk through female history by Annabelle Hirsch
$49.99 AUD
Category: Gender
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
The Lost Princess - Women Writers and the History of Classic Fairy Tales by Anne E. Duggan
$37.99 AUD
Category: Gender
Once upon a time: the forgotten female fabulists whose heroines flipped the fairy tale script. People often associate fairy tales with Disney films and with the male authors from whom Disney often drew inspiration--notably Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, and Hans Christian Andersen. In these portr ...Show more
The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020 by Rachel Kushner
$32.99 AUD
Category: Gender
A wildly original first essay collection from the bestselling, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Mars Room In her twenties Rachel Kushner went to Mexico in pursuit of her first love - motorbikes - to compete in the notorious and deadly race, Cabo 1000. As fellow racers died on the roadside, bikes w ...Show more
README.txt: A Memoir by Chelsea Manning
$35.00 AUD
Category: Gender | Reading Level: very good
An extraordinarily brave and moving memoir from one of the world's most famous whistle-blowers, activists and trans women.In 2010 Chelsea Manning, working as an intelligence analyst in the U.S. Army in Iraq, disclosed 720,000 classified military documents that she had smuggled out via the memory card of ...Show more
Time of Our Lives: Celebrating Older Women by Maggie Kirkman
$34.99 AUD
Category: Gender
Time of Our Lives presents the extraordinary lives of ordinary women in their seventies, eighties and nineties, challenging the stereotype of the helpless old woman who is nothing more than a burden. The first collection of its kind in Australia, it demonstrates the rich lives led by 20 women of diverse ...Show more
Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez
$19.99 AUD
Category: Gender
Imagine a world where… Your phone is too big for your hand Your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body In a car accident you are 47% more likely to be injured. If any of that sounds familiar, chances are you’re a woman. From government policy and medical research, to technology, workplac ...Show more
Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office: 101 Unconscious Mistakes Women Make... by Lois P. Frankel
$19.99 AUD
Category: Gender
For every professional woman who wants to get ahead - but feels she is at an impasse - NICE GIRLS DON'T GET THE CORNER OFFICE comes to the rescue. Although it's more politically correct for women to point the finger outwardly when assessing why they are overlooked for promotions and assignments for whic ...Show more
Queer (Words of Change Series) - Powerful Voices, Inspiring Ideas by Coco Romack
$27.99 AUD
Category: Gender | Series: Words of Change Ser.
Compiled by activist and journalist Coco Romack, this highly giftable collection of stirring words is intended to enlighten, to prompt change, to provide encouragement, and to deepen readers' commitment to the movement. Celebrating activism, focusing on solutions, and avoiding apathy and pessimism, this ...Show more
You're Doing it Wrong: A History of Bad & Bonkers Advice to Women by Kaz Cooke
$34.99 AUD
Category: Gender
A fresh, funny and furious look at the terrible advice women have been told for centuries. Stroll with bestselling author Kaz Cooke through instructions on how to day-drink, wear a dress made of arsenic, pretend you're an idiot, have sex with a billionaire biker, curtsey, get properly harassed at work, ...Show more
Feminism and the Making of a Child Rights Revolution: 1969-1979 by Isobelle Barrett Meyering
$34.99 AUD
Category: Gender
When Australian women's liberationists challenged prevailing expectations of female domesticity, they were accused of being anti-mother and anti-child. Feminism and the Making of a Child Rights Revolution provides a much-needed reassessment of this stereotype. Drawing on extensive archival research and ...Show more
An Apartment on Uranus by Paul B. Preciado
$29.99 AUD
Category: Gender
Uranus is the coldest planet in the solar system, a frozen giant named after a Greek deity. It is also the inspiration for Uranism, a concept coined by the writer Karl Heinrich Ulrichs in 1864 to define the 'third sex' and the rights of those who 'love differently'. Following in Ulrichs's footsteps, Pau ...Show more