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  • Serving in Silence?

    Australian LGBT servicemen and women

    by Noah Riseman, Shirleene Robinson, Graham Willett ...
    Most people have heard of the United States' infamous "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, yet few know about Australia's own history of LGBT military service. In Serving in Silence? lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender servicemen and women share their personal stories for the first time. The book explores the emotional stress they experienced hiding their sexuality or gender identity under official ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Defending Country

    Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Military Service Since 1945

    by Noah Riseman, Richard Trembath ...
    The role of Aboriginal servicemen and women has only recently been brought to the forefront of conversation about Australia's war history. This important book makes a key contribution to recording the role played by Indigenous Australians in our recent military history. Written by two respected historians and based on a substantial number of interviews with Indigenous war veterans who have ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Indigenous Peoples and the Second World War

    The Politics, Experiences and Legacies of War in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand

    by R. Scott Sheffield, Noah Riseman ...
    During the Second World War, Indigenous people in the United States, Australia, New Zealand and Canada mobilised en masse to support the war effort, despite withstanding centuries of colonialism. Their roles ranged from ordinary soldiers fighting on distant shores, to soldiers capturing Japanese prisoners on their own territory, to women working in munitions plants on the home front. R. Scott ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • Transgender Australia

    A History Since 1910

    by Noah Riseman ...
    Trans and gender diverse people have always been present in Australian life, whether they've lived quiet lives in the country, performed in cabaret shows, worked on the streets or run for parliament. But over the last century there have been remarkable changes in how they have identified and expressed themselves. Transgender Australia is the first book to chart the changing social, medical, legal ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Pride in Defence

    The Australian Military and LGBTI Service since 1945

    by Noah Riseman, Shirleene Robinson ...
    Since the Second World War the Australian military has undergone remarkable transformations in the way it has treated lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex service members: it has shifted from persecuting, hunting and discharging LGBTI members to embracing them as valued members who enhance the Force's capabilities. LGBTI people have served in the Australian military since its very ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

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  • Gay Sydney

    A History

    by Garry Wotherspoon ...
    Garry Wotherspoon's Gay Sydney: A History is an updated version of his 1991 classic, City of the Plain: History of a Gay Sub-culture, written in the midst of the AIDS crisis. In this vivid book Wotherspoon traces the shifts that have occurred since then, including majority support for marriage equality and anti-discrimination legislation. He also ponders the parallel evaporation of a distinctly ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sorry and Beyond

    Healing the Stolen Generations

    by Brian Butler, John Bond ...
    Brian Butler’s grandmother was taken from her family in 1910. She was 12 years old. Twenty years later her daughter, Brian’s mother, was taken.Thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families, like Brian Butler’s, have been coping with the trauma of child removal for more than a century. Sorry and Beyond describes the growth of the grassroots movement that exposed the truth about ... Read more

    $25.89 CAD

  • Pretended: Schools and Section 28

    Historical, Cultural and Personal Perspectives

    by Catherine Lee ...
    Pretended is a vivid historical, political and cultural account of schools and teaching under Section 28, a law that banned schools in the UK from promoting homosexuality as a 'pretended family relationship'.Catherine Lee was a teacher in schools for each of the 15 years that Section 28 was law (between 1988 and 2003). In Pretended, she considers the landscape for lesbian and gay teachers leading ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Sisterhood and After

    An Oral History of the UK Women's Liberation Movement, 1968-present

    by Margaretta Jolly ...
    Series series Oxford Oral History Series
    This ground-breaking history of the UK Women's Liberation Movement shows why and how feminism's 'second wave' mobilized to demand not just equality but social and gender transformation. Oral history testimonies power the work, tracing the arc of a feminist life from 1950s girlhoods to late life activism today. Peppered with personal stories, the book casts new light on feminist critiques of ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Difference Identity Makes

    Indigenous Cultural Capital in Australian cultural fields

    Edited by Lawrence Bamblett, Fred Myers, Tim Rowse ...
    Through the struggles of Indigenous Australians for recognition and self-determination it has become common sense to understand Australia as made up of both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people and things. But in what ways is the Indigenous on-Indigenous distinction being used and understood? In The Difference Identity Makes, thirteen Indigenous and non-Indigenous academics examine how this ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

  • Up from Under

    Women and Liberation in New Zealand, 19701985

    by Christine Dann ...
    Christine Dann was an early participant in the women’s movement that swept through New Zealand in the 1970s and 80s. Up from Under is a detailed and fascinating study of the achievements and aspirations of women at that time.Dann chronicles the upheavals and events of that time, examining developments across the political philosophy of the women’s movement, fertility control, paid and unpaid work, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Limits of Consent

    Sexual Assault and Affirmative Consent

    by Lisa Featherstone, Cassandra Byrnes, Jenny Maturi, Kiara Minto, Renée Mickelburgh, Paige Donaghy ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book examines the ways that consent operates in contemporary culture, suggesting it is a useful starting point to respectful relationships. This work, however, seeks to delve deeper, into the more complicated aspects of sexual consent. It examines the ways meaningful consent is difficult, if not impossible, in relationships that involve intimate partner violence or family violence ... Read more

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