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The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
$19.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of "autotheory" offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. ...Show more
Men Explain Things to Me - And Other Essays by Rebecca Solnit
$24.99 AUD
Category: GENDER
In her comic, scathing essay "Men Explain Things to Me," Rebecca Solnit takes on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women. She writes about men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don't, about why this arises, and how this aspect of the gender wars works, air ...Show more
I'm Fine (and Other Lies) - Postnatal Depression, Motherhood, and Trying to Actually Be Fine by Megan Blandford
$29.95 AUD
Category: GENDER
"I slept through my first labour. Eventually a midwife woke me. 'It's time to push,' she said, pointing to the machine that was monitoring my baby. It showed contraction after contraction, spiking and declining with mountainous patterns like the heart rate machines on medical shows. Beside the machine w ...Show more
Amateur - A True Story about What Makes a Man by Thomas Page McBee
$32.99 AUD
Category: GENDER
From an award-winning writer whose work bristles with hard-won strength, insight, agility, and love (Maggie Nelson), an exquisite and troubling narrative of masculinity, violence, and society In this groundbreaking new book, the author, a trans man, trains to fight in a charity match at Madison Square ...Show more
Imperfect by Lee Kofman
$32.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
By the time she was eleven and living in Russia, Lee Kofman had undergone several major operations on both a defective heart and injuries sustained in a bus accident. Her body harbours a constellation of disfiguring scars that have shaped her sense of self and her view of the world. But it wasn't until ...Show more
Sharp: The Women Who Made An Art of Having an Opinion by Michelle Dean
$32.99 AUD
Category: GENDER
From celebrated literary critic Michelle Dean, a powerful portrait of ten women writers who managed to make their voices heard amid a culture of sexism
Fallen by Rochelle Siemienowic
$24.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
"Call me Eve. It's the name I call myself when I think back to that time when I was a young wife - so very young, so very hungry. I picked the fruit and ate and drank until I was drunk with freedom and covered in juice and guilt." In this frank, compelling and beautifully written memoir, Rochelle Siemie ...Show more
The Witches Are Coming: Essays by Lindy West
$32.99 AUD
Category: GENDER | Reading Level: near fine
From the very moment powerful men on top started falling to the #MeToo movement, the lamentations have been raging from every corner: this is feminism gone too far, this is injustice, this is a witch hunt. In The Witches Are Coming, firebrand author of the New York Times bestselling memoir and now criti ...Show more
Motherhood by Sheila Heti
$35.00 AUD
Category: GENDER
A provocative novel about the desire and duty to procreate, from the author of the critically acclaimed How Should A Person Be?Motherhoodtreats one of the most consequential decisions of early adulthood - whether or not to have children - with the intelligence, wit and originality that have won Sheila H ...Show more
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male Power by Ijeoma Oluo
$32.99 AUD
Category: GENDER
From the author of the Sunday Times and number 1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, a subversive history of white male American identity. 'Deftly combines history and sociological study with personal narrative, and the result is both uncomfortable and illuminating' Washington Pos ...Show more
Women of a Certain Rage by Liz Byrski
$29.99 AUD
Category: GENDER
Selected and introduced by Liz Byrski Contributors- Anne Aly, Nadine Browne, Nandi Chinna, Claire G. Coleman, Carrie Cox, Eva Cox, Sarah Drummond, Carly Findlay, Goldie Goldbloom, Rafeif Ismail, Margot Kingston, Jay Martin, Meg McKinlay, Olivia Muscat, Mihaela Nicolescu, Renee Pettitt-Schipp, Fiona Stan ...Show more
Fixed It by Jane Gilmore
$35.00 AUD
Category: GENDER | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
On average, at least one woman is murdered by a current or former partner every week in Australia. Far too many Australian women have experienced physical or sexual violence. Only rarely do these women capture the attention of the media and the public. What can we do to stem the tide of violence and tra ...Show more
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