Decolonising Multilingualism - Struggles to Decreate by Alison Phipps
$22.95 AUD
Category: Theory | Series: Writing Without Borders Ser.
What if my own multilingualism is simply that of one who is fluent in way too many colonial languages? If we are going to do this, if we are going to decolonise multilingualism, let's do it as an attempt at a way of doing it. If we are going to do this, let's cite with an eye to decolonising. If we ar ...Show more
Middlebrow Modernism: Eleanor Dark's Interwar Fiction by Melinda J. Cooper
$45.00 AUD
Category: Theory | Series: Sydney Studies in Australian Literature Ser.
Eleanor Dark (1901-85) is one of Australia's most innovative 20th-century writers. Her extensive oeuvre includes ten novels published from the early 1930s to the late 1950s, and represents a significant engagement with global modernity from a unique position within settler culture. Yet Dark's contributi ...Show more
Guiding Lights - The Extraordinary Lives of Lighthouse Women by Shona Riddell
$39.99 AUD
Category: Theory
Women have a long history of keeping the lights burning, from tending ancient altar flames or bonfires to modern-day lighthouse keeping. Yet most of their stories are little-known. Guiding Lights includes stories from around the world, such as the dramatic torching of Puysegur Point, one of New Zealand' ...Show more
The Careless State: Reforming Australia's Social Services by Mark Considine
$34.99 AUD
Category: Theory
The lives of all Australians are profoundly affected by the quality of social services available, but a long list of royal commissions and public inquiries have revealed them to be failing. In The Careless State Mark Considine shows that the preferred model of reform has failed to adapt and improve.In t ...Show more
The Currency of Politics - The Political Theory of Money from Aristotle to Keynes by Stefan Eich
$39.99 AUD
Category: Theory
This deep intellectual history recovers the foundational ideas at the intersection of monetary rule and democratic politics, drawing on insights from key political thinkers to show how money is not just a medium of exchange but also a central institution of political rule. In this timely and incisive bo ...Show more
The New Parisienne - The Women and Ideas Shaping Paris and Beyond by Lindsey Tramuta; Joann Pai (By (photographer))
$45.00 AUD
Category: Theory
In a follow-up to the popular The New Paris, Lindsey Tramuta explores the impact that the women of Paris have had on the rapidly evolving culture of their city The New Parisienne focuses on one of the city's most prominent features, its women. Lifting the veil on the mythologized Parisian woman--white, ...Show more
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Friedrich Engels; Jennifer Doyle (Introduction by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Theory
Penguin Classics brings this seminal work by Engels back in to print, with a new introduction by historian Tristram Hunt The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884), was a provocative and profoundly influential critique of the Victorian nuclear family. Engels argued that the traditi ...Show more
The Real Coco Chanel by Rose Sgueglia
$59.99 AUD
Category: Theory
Coco Chanel lived her own life as a romantic heroine.Fueled by 19th century literature, she built a life which was partly myth and partly factual.She was the fashion designer everyone admired. The business woman whose fortune was impossible to track. She was also a performer, lover of many high profile ...Show more
The Tragedy of the Worker by Jamie Allinson; China Mievill; Richard Seymour; Rosie Warren
$19.99 AUD
Category: Theory
The climate crisis is so comprehensive in its reach, so thorough in its unsettling effects, that it has called into question not only the foundations of a certain kind of socialism, but also the Enlightened verities upon which both capitalism and its opposition have sought their foundation.'The current ...Show more
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