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  • Courting

    An Intimate History of Love and the Law

    par Alecia Simmonds ...
    Award-winning author Alecia Simmonds uncovers a hidden history of love and heartbreak in the archives of lawUntil well into the twentieth century, heartbroken men and women in Australia had a legal redress for their suffering: jilted lovers could claim compensation for ‘breach of promise to marry’. Hundreds of people, mostly from the working classes, came before the courts, and their stories give ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Transnationalism, Nationalism and Australian History

    Modifié par Anna Clark, Anne Rees, Alecia Simmonds ...
    Collections series History (R0)
    Using Australian history as a case study, this collection explores the ways national identities still resonate in historical scholarship and reexamines key moments in Australian history through a transnational lens, raising important questions about the unique context of Australia’s national narrative. The book examines the tension between national and transnational perspectives, attempting to ... En savoir plus

    $108.89 CAD

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  • The Sex Lives of Australians

    A History

    par Frank Bongiorno ...
    Cross-dressing convicts, effeminate bushrangers and women-shortage woes – here is the first ever history of sex in Australia, from Botany Bay to the present-day.In this fascinating social history, Frank Bongiorno uses striking examples to chart the changing sex lives of Australians. Tracing the story up to the present, Bongiorno shows how the quest for respectability always has another side to it ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Big Book of Scandalous Australian Women

    par Kay Saunders ...
    Bringing together bad women of every stripe and variety - the scandalous, the brash, the fearless, the downright nasty and some who just went a little bit wrong - in the one big book.Some are wicked, some are scandalous, some are downright mean and ruthless and some just went a little bit sideways. Meet the bad women of Australia: the femmes who challenge our ideas of what women should be - ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • Feminism

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Margaret Walters ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    How much have women's lives really changed? In the West women still come up against the 'glass ceiling' at work, most earning considerably less than their male counterparts. What are we to make of the now commonplace insistence that feminism deprives men of their rights and dignities? And how does one tackle the issue of female emancipation in different cultural and economic environments - in, for ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

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  • Bluestockings

    The Remarkable Story of the First Women to Fight for an Education

    par Jane Robinson ...
    The incredible story of the fight for female education in BritainIn 1869, when five women enrolled at university for the first time in British history, the average female brain was thought to be 150 grams lighter than a man's. When the Cambridge Senate held a vote on whether women students should be allowed official membership of the university, there was a full-scale riot. Despite the prejudice ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • Family Secrets

    The Things We Tried to Hide

    par Deborah Cohen ...
    A Sunday Telegraph and Times Higher Education 'Book of the Week', Deborah Cohen's Family Secrets is a gripping book about what families - Victorian and modern - try to hide, and why.In an Edinburgh town house, a genteel maiden lady frets with her brother over their niece's downy upper lip. Would the darkening shadow betray the girl's Eurasian heritage? On a Liverpool railway platform, a ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • Ladies Can’t Climb Ladders

    The Pioneering Adventures of the First Professional Women

    par Jane Robinson ...
    It is a myth that either of the World Wars liberated women.The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919 was one of the most significant pieces of legislation in modern Britain. It marked at once political watershed and a social revolution; the point at which women of 21 and over were recognised in law as being as competent as men. But were they? What actually happened when this bill was passed? ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • She and Her Pretty Friend

    The hidden history of Australian women who love women

    par Danielle Scrimshaw ...
    ‘another a piece of the puzzle that is unearthing women’s stories from the past ... a beautifully told history’ – Books+PublishingA joyous look at the history of lesbian and bisexual women in Australia – from convict times, through suffrage and liberation to todayThroughout history, women’s relationships have been downgraded and diminished. Instead of lovers, they are documented as particularly ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • Girl Trouble

    Panic and Progress in the History of Young Women

    par Professor Carol Dyhouse ...
    'A brilliant cultural history.'Irish ExaminerGirls behave badly. If they're not obscenity-shouting, pint-swigging ladettes, they're narcissistic, living dolls floating around in a cloud of self-obsession, far too busy twerking to care. And this is news.In this witty and wonderful book, Carol Dyhouse shows that where there's a social scandal or a wave of moral outrage, you can bet a girl is to ... En savoir plus

    $28.99 CAD

  • Rooted

    An Australian History of Bad Language

    par Amanda Laugesen ...
    A colorful journey through Australia's unique history of bad language.Amanda Laugesen, Chief Editor of the Australian National Dictionary, explores the fascinating story of Australian bad language, from convict curses to contemporary slang. This social history reveals how swearing has been used to defy authority, express identity, and shape Australian culture. Discover the power of profanity, its ... En savoir plus

    $20.00 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Convict Women

    par Kay Daniels ...
    Who were the female convicts? What kinds of lives did they lead in a new society half a world away from home?Convict Women looks beyond the conventional images to draw a new and often surprising picture of convict women's experiences in a strange and harsh country. Beginning with the story of Maria Lord - convict, pioneer family woman, successful entrepreneur and abandoned wife - the book looks at ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus