Abolition. Feminism. Now. by Angela Davis, Erica Meiners, Beth Ritchie, Gina Dent
$32.99 AUD
Category: Gender Studies
In this landmark work, four of the world's leading scholar-activists set out a vital, urgent manifesto for a truly intersectional, internationalist, abolitionist feminism. A powerful work from four activist scholars on the need for our thinking on abolitionism and feminism to intersect. As a politics an ...Show more
Abolition. Feminism. Now. by Angela Davis, Erica Meiners, Beth Ritchie, Gina Dent
$22.99 AUD
Category: Gender Studies
In this landmark work, four of the world's leading scholar-activists set out a vital, urgent manifesto for a truly intersectional, internationalist, abolitionist feminism. A powerful work from four activist scholars on the need for our thinking on abolitionism and feminism to intersect. As a politics a ...Show more
Abortion - A Personal Story, a Political Choice by Pauline Harmange
$19.99 AUD
Category: Gender Studies
From the author of I Hate Men, a personal and political reflection on abortion rights.Discussion about abortion and associated rights are often limited to either 'anti-abortion' or 'pro-choice', the latter of which focuses on the importance of having the right to choose, rather than on what that right m ...Show more
Against White Feminism by Rafia Zakaria
$22.99 AUD
Category: Culture Studies
Most of us believe that feminism is a force for good. In the past 200 years, it has paved the way for women to advance economically, increasing their safety and their power in society, and advocating for their needs and experiences. But not for all women. If you are poor, if you are an immigrant to the ...Show more
Alchemy by Kate Forsyth
$49.99 AUD
Category: Culture Studies
When a bestselling author and a much-esteemed painter meet at a party, they soon cook up the idea to collaborate and make a book about the life cycle of a woman... Two brilliant artists get together and plan a dramatic book in words and images about the twists and turns in the life cycle of a woman. Fr ...Show more
All Made Up: The Power and Pitfalls of Beauty Culture, from Cleopatra to Kim Kardashian by Rae Nudson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Culture Studies
A fascinating journey through history and culture, examining how makeup affects self-empowerment, how people have used it to define (and defy) their roles in society, and why we all need to careThere is a history and a cultural significance that comes with wearing cat-eye-inspired liner or a bold red li ...Show more
All of the Marvels: An Amazing Voyage into Marvel's Universe and 27,000 Superhero Comics by Douglas Wolk
$39.99 AUD
Category: Culture Studies
Marvel comics are the nearest thing modernity has produced to a holy epic, a blockbusting, record-shattering pop-cultural cosmology that echoes our deepest hopes and fears. NYT comics critic Douglas Wolk has read them all. This is what they add up to.
Anthro-Vision: How Anthropology Can Explain Business and Life by Gillian Tett
$35.00 AUD
Category: Culture Studies
From the bestselling author of Fool's GoldTo understand business, you need to think like an anthropologist.Is your workplace riven by tribal conflict? Are your meetings governed by dozens of unspoken rituals? Is there something faintly religious about the way your colleagues worship the CEO?If so, then ...Show more
Artificial Intimacy: Virtual friends, Digital Lovers and Algorithmic Matchmakers by Rob Brooks
$32.99 AUD
Category: Culture Studies
People have long told machines what to do by pushing buttons. Now, with advances in technology, machines are pushing our buttons.In Artificial Intimacy, evolutionary biologist Rob Brooks takes us from the origins of human behaviour to the latest in artificially intelligent technologies, providing a fres ...Show more
Aspiration and Anxiety by Christina Ho
$34.99 AUD
Category: Culture Studies
The children of Asian migrants are often perceived to be perfect students: ambitious, studious and compliant. They are remarkably successful—routinely outperforming other students in exams, dominating selective school intakes, and disproportionately winning places at prestigious universities. While thei ...Show more
Australia Reimagined: Towards a More Compassionate, Less Anxious Society by Hugh Mackay
$19.99 AUD
Category: Culture Studies
'When it comes to our future, misplaced optimism is as dangerous as blind faith. What is needed is the courage to face the way things are, and the wisdom and imagination to work out how to make things better.'Australia's unprecedented run of economic growth has failed to deliver a more stable or harmoni ...Show more
Bad Taste Or the Politics of Ugliness by Nathalie Olah
$34.99 AUD
Category: Culture Studies
This is a book about taste, or lack thereof. It is about the growing importance that we place on subjective ideas of taste in a culture that is saturated by imagery, and the sometimes damaging impact this can have on our identities, communities and politics. Who are the tastemakers and how does their ...Show more