Winning for Women A Personal Story by Iola Mathews
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
What was it like to be involved in the heady days of 'second wave' feminism in Australia, when the role of women at home and at work changed decisively? Iola Mathews was one of the founders of the Women's Electoral Lobby, a journalist at The Age, and later a leading ACTU advocate for women workers durin ...Show more
Winning for Women: A Personal Story by Iola Mathews
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Biography Ser.
What was it like to be involved in the heady days of 'second wave' feminism in Australia, when the role of women at home and at work changed decisively? Iola Mathews was one of the founders of the Women's Electoral Lobby, a journalist at The Age, and later a leading ACTU advocate for women workers durin ...Show more
Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The bestselling author of Postcards from the Edge comes clean (well, sort of) in her first-ever memoir, adapted from her one-woman Broadway hit show. Fisher reveals what it was really like to grow up a product of "Hollywood in-breeding," come of age on the set of a little movie called Star Wars, and bec ...Show more
Woman of Color by LaTonya Yvette
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
LaTonya Yvette, the blogger and stylist behind the eponymous site, is unapologetically candid about life's trials, including motherhood, love, death, and racism. Her first book,Woman ofColor, is part memoir, part lifestyle guide-packed with moving essays, gorgeous original and archival photographs, and ...Show more
Women Are the Future of Islam by Sherin Khankan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The future of Islam is female Named one of the BBC's 100 Women of 2016 Sherin Khankan is one of the very few female imams in the Western World. In addition she has founded the first mosque for women in Europe. In this urgent manifesto this remarkable woman challenges the idea that Islam should be defin ...Show more
Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir by Rachel Louise Snyder
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Following the acclaimed No Visible Bruises, a piercing account of the author's childhood in an Evangelic Christian community, her teenage escape, and her career as a reporter at the frontline of the global epidemic of violence against women.Award-winning journalist Rachel Louise Snyder has spent her car ...Show more
Women of a Certain Age by Jodie Moffat
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Anne Aly, Liz Byrski, Sarah Drummond, Mehreen Faruqi, Goldie Goldbloom, Krissy Kneen, Jeanine Leane, Brigid Lowry and Pat Torres are among fifteen voices recounting what it is like to be a woman on the other side of 40. These are stories of identity and survival, and a celebration of getting older and w ...Show more
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands by Mary Seacole
$12.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Famed for her work among the sick and wounded of the Crimean War, Mary Seacole possessed a unique perspective: that of a Victorian-era black woman at a battlefield's front line. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1805, she began her career as a healer by helping her mother nurse British officers at nearby mi ...Show more
Words for Lucy: A story of love, loss and the celebration of life by Marion Halligan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
One morning, Lucy Halligan lay on her bed with her cat and went to sleep. Soon after, her heart stopped. But her mother, writer Marion Halligan, forced hers to keep beating. More joy than sorrow, this profoundly moving memoir celebrates Lucy's life, weaving together everyday details and treasured events ...Show more
Working Girl - On Selling Art and Selling Sex by Sophia Giovannitti
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The portrait of a young artist making both a living and a life as a young artist trying to make a living in New York without sacrificing all her time to paying rent, Sophia Giovannitti turned to sex work: first, telling herself it was part of her art, and then quickly accepting it as simply the way to m ...Show more
Working with Winston by Cita Stelzer
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
To maintain the pace at which he worked as a parliamentarian, cabinet minister, war leader, writer and painter, Churchill required a vast female staff of secretaries, typists and others. For these women Churchill was an intimidating boss; he was a man of prodigious energy, who imposed unusual and demand ...Show more