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  • Gender Violence in Australia

    Historical Perspectives

    Edited by Alana Piper, Ana Stevenson ...
    Series series Australian History
    In 2015, the Australian federal government proclaimed that violence against women had become a national crisis. Despite widespread social and economic advances in the status of women since the 1970s, including growing awareness and action around gender violence, its prevalence remains alarming. A third of all women in Australia have been assaulted physically; a fifth of all women have been ... Read more

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  • Beyond White Guilt

    The real challenge for black-white relations in Australia

    by Sarah Maddison ...
    'This book lays out the way modern Australia can right the wrongs that have occurred in the intervening years, and decades, and centuries that have passed since that first dramatic encounter.' - From the foreword by The Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG'An excellent diagnosis of Australia's mind-set.' - Jeff McMullen journalist, author, film makerDeep in our hearts, Australians know that our nation was ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Deeds Not Words

    The Story of Women's Rights - Then and Now

    by Helen Pankhurst ...
    'An uplifting record of progress and strength... You'll lay the book down feeling not only informed, but galvanised to take action yourself.' Independent'An incredible book . . . with the potential to change women's lives.' Sandi ToksvigIn Deeds Not Words suffragette descendant and activist Helen Pankhurst charts the changes in the lives of women over the last 100 years. She celebrates landmark ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • A History of Australian Schooling

    by Craig Campbell, Helen Proctor ...
    At a time when schooling is more important than ever for families, and where there is great public concern about educational standards and outcomes, Craig Campbell and Helen Proctor show what is new and what is an echo of older agendas. They offer a comprehensive history of Australian schooling from colonial days to the present, highlighting the ways in which schooling has helped shape society ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Black Lives, White Law

    Locked Up and Locked Out in Australia

    by Russell Marks ...
    How and why Australia's legal system fails Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people'Russell Marks unravels a national tragedy. From the front line he delivers a first-rate, firsthand account of how so many First Nations people end up in jail, again and again.' --Patrick Dodson, Labor Senator for Western AustraliaIndigenous Australians are the most incarcerated people on the planet. Indigenous ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Broken Circles

    by Anna Haebich ...
    This major work reveals the dark heart of the history of the Stolen Generations in Australia. It shows that, from the earliest times of European colonization, Aboriginal Australians experienced the trauma of loss and separation, as their children were abducted, enslaved, institutionalized, and culturally remodeled. Providing a moving and comprehensive account of this tragic history, this study ... Read more

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  • Orphans of the Living

    by Joanna Penglase ...
    Drawing on interviews, submissions to the Senate Inquiry, and personal experience, this revealing documentation describes, for the first time, the experience of Forgotten Australians from the perspective of the survivors. In August 2004, Parliamentary senators wept as they presented the report from the Senate Inquiry into the treatment of children in care. Half a million children grew up in "care" ... Read more

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  • Black, White and Exempt

    Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander lives under Exemption

    Edited by Lucinda Aberdeen, Jennifer Jones ...
    In 1957, Ella Simon of Purfleet mission near Taree, New South Wales, applied for and was granted a certificate of exemption. Exemption gave her legal freedoms denied to other Indigenous Australians at that time: she could travel freely, open a bank account, and live and work where she wanted. In the eyes of the law she became a non-Aboriginal, but in return she could not associate with other ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Sexed

    A History of British Feminism

    by Susanna Rustin ...
    Susanna Rustin's Sexed is a radical retelling of the story of British feminism.Starting in the revolutionary 1790s and ending in the present day, she introduces the 1830s radicals who demanded “LIBERTY FOR EVER!”, Victorian petitioners who expected to be dead before women won the vote, and rival camps of suffragists who embraced and rejected violence. She considers the contributions of the first ... Read more

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  • Stolen Motherhood

    Aboriginal Mothers and Child Removal in the Stolen Generations Era

    by Anne Maree Payne ...
    The removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families gained national attention in Australia following the Bringing Them Home Report in 1997. However, the voices of Indigenous parents were largely missing from the Report. The Inquiry attributed their lack of testimony to the impact of trauma and the silencing impact of parents’ overwhelming sense of guilt and despair; a ... Read more

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  • Virtue Capitalists

    The Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World, 1870–2008

    by Hannah Forsyth ...
    Virtue Capitalists explores the rise of the professional middle class across the Anglophone world from c. 1870 to 2008. With a focus on British settler colonies – Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States – Hannah Forsyth argues that the British middle class structured old forms of virtue into rapidly expanding white-collar professional work, needed to drive both economic and ... Read more

    $36.99 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