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Defiant Voices: How Australia’s Female Convicts Challenged Authority 1788–1853 by Babette Smith
$49.99 AUD
Category: Feminism and Gender
Between 1788 and 1868, approximately 25,000 women were transported to Australia. For nearly 200 years, there has been a chorus of outrage at their vulgarity, their depravity and their promiscuity. Babette Smith takes the reader beyond this traditional casting of convict women, looking for evidence of th ...Show more
Cutting Edge: Noir Short Stories by Women by Joyce Carol Oates
$22.99 AUD
Category: Feminism and Gender
Joyce Carol Oates pulls out all the stops in this chilling female-led noir anthology featuring brand-new writing from Margaret Atwood, Steph Cha, Edwidge Danticat and more.
In Control by Jane Monckton-Smith
$29.99 AUD
Category: Feminism and Gender
In the UK, every week three women are killed by their partners. Over half the women killed by men are killed by a current or ex-partner. On average domestic abuse victims are assaulted 68 times before calling the police.There is a domestic violence epidemic happening right now, yet as a society we still ...Show more
Loved and Wanted: A Memoir of Choice, Children, and Womanhood by Christa Parravani
$29.99 AUD
Category: Feminism and Gender
A harrowing account of one woman's reckoning with life, death and choice. For readers of Educated, Hillbilly Elegy and Three Women.
Sex, Lies and Question Time: The successes and struggles of women in Australia’s parliament by Kate Ellis
$32.99 AUD
Category: Feminism and Gender
In 2017, a survey showed zero per cent of young Australian women would consider entering politics. Zero. In a time when we critically need women in our parliament, and in a country that was an early leader in women's political participation, there is a perception that women and politics don’t mix. Shoc ...Show more
Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship by Clementine Ford
$22.99 AUD
Category: Feminism and Gender
Clementine Ford reports that one of the questions she is most asked in person and online is 'how do I raise my son to be a feminist? How do I make sure he's a supporter rather than a perpetrator?' That is a question that many parents with sons are haunted by. Now that Clem is mother to a baby boy of he ...Show more
Great Women's Speeches: Empowering Voices that Engage and Inspire by Anna Russell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Feminism and Gender
Discover the inspiring voices that have changed our world, and started a new conversation. The first dedicated collection of seminal speeches by women from around the world, Great Womens Speeches is about women at the forefront of change-within politics, science, human rights, and media; discussing ever ...Show more
More Than a Woman by Caitlin Moran
$35.00 AUD
Category: Feminism and Gender
How to be an older woman? Who knows. Being a young woman can be challenging. But it turns out not even a fraction of the bullshit has happened to you by the time you turn thirty. Because your thirties, forties and beyond see you dealing with Real Life, the stuff you never thought would happen to you- gr ...Show more
The Barbizon by Paulina Bren
$32.99 AUD
Category: Feminism and Gender
Built in 1927, New York's Barbizon Hotel was first intended as a home for the 'Modern Woman' seeking a career in the arts. It became the place to stay for ambitious, independent women, who were lured by the promise of fame and good fortune. Sylvia Plath fictionalized her time there in The Bell Jar, and ...Show more
The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age by Myra MacPherson
$25.00 AUD
Category: Feminism and Gender
Victoria Claflin Woodhull and Tennessee 'Tennie' Claflin were true American originals. These vastly forward-thinking sisters' push for women's fiscal, political, and sexual independence placed them among the most fascinating, flamboyant, and scandalous women of the 19th century. In just a few decades, t ...Show more
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
$22.99 AUD
Category: Feminism and Gender
"A Vindication of the Rights of Woman", by Mary Wollstonecraft. Mary Wollstonecraft was british writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights (1759-1797).
Do It Like a Woman - ... and Change the World by Caroline Criado-Perez
$22.99 AUD
Category: Feminism and Gender
The reissue of a brilliant, necessary manifesto for women everywhere.