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Mothers - An Essay on Love and Cruelty by Jacqueline Rose
$24.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
A daring and provocative book-length essay on why we both romanticize and vilify mothersA simple argument guides this book: motherhood is the place in our culture where we lodge, or rather bury, the reality of our own conflicts. By making mothers the objects of both licensed idealization and cruelty, we ...Show more
Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty by Jacqueline Rose
$24.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
A simple argument guides this book: motherhood is the place in our culture where we lodge, or rather bury, the reality of our own conflicts. By making mothers the objects of both licensed idealization and cruelty, we blind ourselves to the world's iniquities and shut down the portals of the heart. Mothe ...Show more
On Violence and On Violence Against Women by Jacqueline Rose
$32.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
A blazingly insightful, provocative study of violence against women from the peerless feminist critic. 'To read Rose is to understand that there is no border between us and the world; it is an invitation to a radical kind of responsibility.' NEW YORK TIMES 'It's really hard for me to overestimate how im ...Show more
On Violence and on Violence Against Women by Jacqueline Rose
$29.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
Why has violence, and especially violence against women, become so much more prominent and visible across the world? To explore this question, Jacqueline Rose tracks the multiple forms of today's violence - historic and intimate, public and private - as they spread throughout our social fabric, offerin ...Show more
The Haunting of Sylvia Plath by Jacqueline Rose
$30.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Virago Modern Classics
Since her suicide in 1963 at the age of 30, Sylvia Plath has become a strange icon. This book addresses why this is the case and what this tells us about the way culture picks out important writers. The author argues that without a concept of fantasy we can understand neither Plath's work nor what she h ...Show more
The Last Resistance by Jacqueline Rose
$19.98 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Radical Thinkers
In The Last Resistance, Jacqueline Rose explores the power of writing to create and transform our political lives. In particular, she examines the role of literature in the Zionist imagination: here, literature is presented as a unique form of dissidence, with the power to expose the unconscious of nat ...Show more
The Plague: Living death in our times by Jacqueline Rose
$27.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
A collection of essays imagining a world in which a radical respect for death might exist alongside a fairer distribution of the earth's wealth, by one of our leading thinkers.
Women in Dark Times by Jacqueline Rose
$19.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
Jacqueline Rose's new book begins with three remarkable women: revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg; German-Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon, persecuted by family tragedy and Nazism; film icon and consummate performer Marilyn Monroe. Together these women have a shared story to tell, as they blaze a tr ...Show more
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