The Gay Agenda - A Modern Queer History and Handbook by Ashley Molesso; Chessie Needham
$37.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
A joyful celebration of the LGBTQ+ community's development, history, and culture, packed with facts, trivia, timelines, and charts, and featuring 100 full color illustrations. Compiled and designed by queer power couple and illustrators extraordinaire, Ashley Molesso and Chessie Needham, founders of th ...Show more
Daisy Moon Was Born This Way by Emily Sheehan
$23.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
"You don't wanna fit in. You wanna stand out. Way out. So far out they'd think you were from outer space." Bright eyed and eccentric 14-year-old Daisy Moon is President and Founder of the Bateman's Bay Little Monsters Fan Club. She holds her club meetings inside the dusty beachside bus stop on her front ...Show more
Evolution's Rainbow by Joan Roughgarden
$57.95 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
In this innovative celebration of diversity and affirmation of individuality in animals and humans, Joan Roughgarden challenges accepted wisdom about gender identity and sexual orientation. A distinguished evolutionary biologist, Roughgarden takes on the medical establishment, the Bible, social science- ...Show more
When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe by Maureen Quilligan
$31.95 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
The sixteenth century in Europe was a time of chronic destabilization in which institutions of traditional authority were challenged and religious wars seemed unending. Yet it also witnessed the remarkable flowering of a pacifist culture, cultivated by a cohort of extraordinary women rulers-most notably ...Show more
Griffith Review 80 Creation Stories by Culver Carody
$27.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
The capacity to tell stories — along with language and the ability to create art — is seen as both intrinsic and unique to the human species. Over thousands of years, we’ve forged narratives of our origins, our journeys and our dreams as a means of accounting for who we are and to define our place in th ...Show more
The Autists: Women on the Spectrum by Clara Tornvall
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
An incisive and deeply candid account that explores autistic women in culture, myth, and society through the prism of the author's own diagnosis.Until the 1980s, autism was regarded as a condition found mostly in boys. Even in our time, autistic girls and women have largely remained invisible. When port ...Show more
All a Novelist Needs: Colm Toibin on Henry James by Colm Toibin
$69.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
This book collects, for the first time, Colm Toibin's critical essays on Henry James. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize for his novel about James's life, The Master, Toibin brilliantly analyzes James from a novelist's point of view. Known for his acuity and originality, Toibin is himself a master of fict ...Show more
Griffith Review 82: Animal Magic by Carody Culver (Editor)
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
Whether it’s man’s best friend or the king of the jungle, animals occupy a central place in our social, emotional and cultural lives. We’re happy as clams or pigs in mud; we hold our horses or take a lion’s share of what we want; we avoid the elephant in the room or try not to open a can of worms. Anima ...Show more
365 Gays of the Year (Plus 1 for a Leap Year): Discover LGBTQ+ history one day at a time by Lewis Laney
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
365 Gays of the Year is a celebration of Queer history told through one LGBTQ+ figure for each day of the year. A fun and fascinating compendium of LGBTQ+ icons, one for every day of the year, and a celebration of queer history - or as RuPaul would say; Herstory!Discover your queer hero and learn someth ...Show more
Accidental Feminists by Jane Caro
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
Women over fifty-five are of the generation that changed everything. We didn't expect to. Or intend to. We weren't brought up much differently from the women who came before us, and we rarely identified as feminists, although almost all of us do now. Accidental Feminists is our story. It explores how th ...Show more
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language by Amanda Montell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
A brash, enlightening and wildly entertaining feminist look at gendered language and the way it shapes us. English is scattered with perfectly innocuous words that have devolved into insults hurled at women. The word 'bitch' originally meant male or female genitalia. 'Hussy' was simply a housewife, and ...Show more
SWAN POEMS AND PROSE POEMS by Mary Oliver
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
"Joy is not made to be a crumb," writes Mary Oliver, and certainly joy abounds in her new book of poetry and prose poems. Swan, her twentieth volume, shows us that, though we may be "made out of the dust of stars," we are of the world she captures here so vividly: the acorn that hides within it an entir ...Show more