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Eleanor Marx: A Life: A Life by Rachel Holmes
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Unrestrained by convention, lion-hearted and free, Eleanor Marx (1855-98) was an exceptional woman. Hers was the first English translation of Flaubert's Mme Bovary. She pioneered the theatre of Henrik Ibsen. She was the first woman to lead the British dock workers' and gas workers' trades unions. For ye ...Show more
Fifty Shades of Feminism by Edited by Lisa Appignanesi, Susie Orbach, Rachel Holmes
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Fifty years after the publication of The Feminine Mystique, have women really exchanged purity and maternity to become desiring machines inspired only by variations of sex, shopping and masochism - all coloured a brilliant neuro-pink? In this volume, fifty women young and old - writers, politicians, ac ...Show more
Sylvia Pankhurst - Natural Born Rebel by Rachel Holmes
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'A wonderful book ... Holmes sublimely illuminates Sylvia's extraordinary life' The Times'A masterpiece' Vanessa Redgrave Born into one of Britain's most famous activist families, Sylvia Pankhurst was a natural rebel. A free spirit and radical visionary, history placed her in the shadow of her famous mo ...Show more
The Hottentot Venus by Rachel Holmes
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
'A significant and timely book - Holmes has produced a laceratingly powerful story' Frances Wilson, Literary ReviewIn 1810 the slave turned showgirl Sarah Baartman, London's most famous curiosity, became its legal cause cel bre. Famed for her exquisite physique in particular her shapely bottom she was s ...Show more
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