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A Brief History of Feminism
Patu, Antje Schrupp; Translated by Sophie Lewis
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R415
R371
Discovery Miles 3 710
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Out of Earth (Paperback)
Sheyla Smanioto; Translated by Sophie Lewis, Laura Garmeson
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R456
R368
Discovery Miles 3 680
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'Striking.' ELLE France 'Brave.' iNews 'Powerful.' TLS 'Urgent.'
Evening Standard 'Original.' Cosmopolitan In these essays, Leila
Slimani gives voice to young Moroccan women who are grappling with
a conservative Arab culture that at once condemns and commodifies
sex. In a country where the law punishes and outlaws all forms of
sex outside marriage, as well as homosexuality and prostitution,
women have only two options for their sexual identities: virgin or
wife. Sex and Lies is an essential confrontation with Morocco's
intimate demons and a vibrant appeal for the universal freedom to
be, to love and to desire. 'Leila Slimani has a knack for breaking
taboos. . . Sex and Lies is well executed: the novelist paints
vivid portraits of her interviewees.' The Times 'Slimani trusts in
her outrage, in the force of her own voice, and the voices of the
women she listens to.' Guardian
Experiences of Health Workers in the COVID-19 Pandemic shares the
stories of frontline health workers-told in their own words-during
the second wave of COVID-19 in Australia. The book records the
complex emotions healthcare workers experienced as the pandemic
unfolded, and the challenges they faced in caring for themselves,
their families, and their patients. The book shares their insights
on what we can learn from the pandemic to strengthen our health
system and prepare for future crises. The book draws on over 9,000
responses to a survey examining the psychological, occupational,
and social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on frontline health
workers. Survey participants came from all areas of the health
sector, from intensive care doctors to hospital cleaners to aged
care nurses, and from large metropolitan hospitals to rural primary
care practices. The authors organise these free-text responses
thematically, creating a shared narrative of health workers
experiences. Each chapter is prefaced by a brief commentary that
provides context and introduces the the themes that emerged from
the survey. This book offers a unique historical record of the
experiences of thousands of healthcare workers at the height of the
second wave of the pandemic and will be of great interest to anyone
interested in the experiences of healthcare workers, and the
psychological, organisational, healthcare policy, and social
challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Experiences of Health Workers in the COVID-19 Pandemic shares the
stories of frontline health workers-told in their own words-during
the second wave of COVID-19 in Australia. The book records the
complex emotions healthcare workers experienced as the pandemic
unfolded, and the challenges they faced in caring for themselves,
their families, and their patients. The book shares their insights
on what we can learn from the pandemic to strengthen our health
system and prepare for future crises. The book draws on over 9,000
responses to a survey examining the psychological, occupational,
and social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on frontline health
workers. Survey participants came from all areas of the health
sector, from intensive care doctors to hospital cleaners to aged
care nurses, and from large metropolitan hospitals to rural primary
care practices. The authors organise these free-text responses
thematically, creating a shared narrative of health workers
experiences. Each chapter is prefaced by a brief commentary that
provides context and introduces the the themes that emerged from
the survey. This book offers a unique historical record of the
experiences of thousands of healthcare workers at the height of the
second wave of the pandemic and will be of great interest to anyone
interested in the experiences of healthcare workers, and the
psychological, organisational, healthcare policy, and social
challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Therese and Isabelle (Paperback)
Violette Leduc; Afterword by Michael Lucey; Translated by Sophie Lewis
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R429
R356
Discovery Miles 3 560
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This Tilting World (Paperback)
Colette Fellous; Translated by Sophie Lewis
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R443
R364
Discovery Miles 3 640
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To Leave with the Reindeer is the account of a woman who has been
trained for a life she cannot live. She readies herself for
freedom, and questions its limits, by exploring how humans relate
to animals. Rosenthal weaves an intricate pattern, combining the
central narrative with many other voices - vets, farmers, breeders,
trainers, a butcher - to produce a polyphonic composition full of
fascinating and disconcerting insights.Wise, precise, generous, To
Leave with the Reindeer takes a clear-eyed look at the dilemmas of
domestication, both human and animal, and the price we might pay to
break free.
I was trying not to think about looking for work, which is immoral,
I wasn't hoping to earn a living, which is pretty unusual, I
couldn't have cared less about the cash, which is reckless in these
times of very grave threats, but I was scraping a living already,
which was repugnant, on the miniscule royalties from a thickwit
novel, which is scandalous, which I'd created from the stories of a
brilliant and brittle grand dame of theatre, survivor of a romance
full of stereotypes, which makes you think though I don't know what
about.' Sparring with the spectre of an over-bearing father, torn
between the push to find a job and the pull to write, the narrator
wanders into a larger debate, one in which the troubling lights of
Kafka, Kraus, and Klemperer shine bright. Set against the backdrop
of police brutality and rising nationalism that marked the state of
emergency following the 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris, Poetics of
Work takes a jab at the values of late capitalism. Hence these ten
'lessons to today's young poets' - a blistering treatise of
survival skills for the wilfully idle
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This Tilting World (Paperback)
Colette Fellous; Translated by Sophie Lewis; Foreword by Michele Roberts
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R401
R326
Discovery Miles 3 260
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Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia: on the night after the terrorist attack
killing thirty-eight tourists on the nearby beach of Sousse, a
woman sits facing the sea, and attempts to take stock. Personal
tragedies soon resurface, the unexpected deaths of a dear friend -
a fellow writer who died just weeks ago at sea, having forsaken the
work that had given his life meaning - and of her father, a quiet
man who had left all that he held dear in Tunisia to emigrate to
France in his later years. Through childhood memories and the prism
of modern French classics, the story of Tunisia's Jewish community
is pieced together. Shifting from Tunisia to Paris to a Flaubertian
village in Normandy, Colette Fellous embarks on a Proustian lyrical
journey, in which she gives voice to loved ones silenced by death
and to those often unheard in life. Her love letter and adieu to
her native country becomes an archive - or refuge - for stories of
human resilience.
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Blue Self-Portrait (Paperback)
Noemi Lefebvre; Translated by Sophie Lewis; Cover design or artwork by Anais Mims
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R332
R268
Discovery Miles 2 680
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A French woman haunted by her encounter with an American-German
pianist-composer who is obsessed with Arnold Schoenberg's portrait,
flies home with her lively sister and a volume of Adorno's letters
to Thomas Mann. While the impossible heroine unpicks her social
failures the pianist reaches towards a musical self-portrait with
all the resonance of Schoenberg's passionate, chilling blue. A
novel of angst and high farce, Blue Self-Portrait unfolds among
Berlin's cultural institutions but is more truly located in the
mid-air flux between contrary impulses to remember and to ignore.
Noemi Lefebvre shows how music continues to work on and through us,
addressing past trauma while reaching for possible futures.
The Future of Difference theorises contemporary regimes of power as
engaged primarily in the violent production of difference. In this
moment, the logic of 'other and rule' thoroughly permeates the
social and the political; our contemporary condition is
increasingly premised on endless subtle hierarchical distinctions,
which determine whole populations' attitudes, feelings and actions.
Hark and Villa make a compelling case for the detoxification of
public and political discourse, in favor of an ethical mode of
living-with the world, that is, living with plurality and alterity.
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Communism for Kids (Paperback)
Bini Adamczak; Translated by Jacob Blumenfeld, Sophie Lewis
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R351
R263
Discovery Miles 2 630
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Communism, capitalism, work, crisis, and the market, described in
simple storybook terms and illustrated by drawings of adorable
little revolutionaries. Once upon a time, people yearned to be free
of the misery of capitalism. How could their dreams come true? This
little book proposes a different kind of communism, one that is
true to its ideals and free from authoritarianism. Offering relief
for many who have been numbed by Marxist exegesis and given
headaches by the earnest pompousness of socialist politics, it
presents political theory in the simple terms of a children's
story, accompanied by illustrations of lovable little
revolutionaries experiencing their political awakening. It all
unfolds like a story, with jealous princesses, fancy swords,
displaced peasants, mean bosses, and tired workers-not to mention a
Ouija board, a talking chair, and a big pot called "the state."
Before they know it, readers are learning about the economic
history of feudalism, class struggles in capitalism, different
ideas of communism, and more. Finally, competition between two
factories leads to a crisis that the workers attempt to solve in
six different ways (most of them borrowed from historic models of
communist or socialist change). Each attempt fails, since true
communism is not so easy after all. But it's also not that hard. At
last, the people take everything into their own hands and decide
for themselves how to continue. Happy ending? Only the future will
tell. With an epilogue that goes deeper into the theoretical issues
behind the story, this book is perfect for all ages and all who
desire a better world.
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Trysting (Paperback)
Emmanuelle Pagano; Translated by Jennifer Higgins, Sophie Lewis
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R371
R278
Discovery Miles 2 780
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