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Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty by Jacqueline Rose
$24.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: near fine
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
Mothers - An Essay on Love and Cruelty by Jacqueline Rose
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
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
On Not Being Able to Sleep by Jacqueline Rose
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Rose delves into privacy and publishing, exposure and shame. Writing about such icons as Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, Freud and Jung, she moves deftly between public and private worlds, linking feminism, psychoanalysis, literature and politics.
On Violence and On Violence Against Women by Jacqueline Rose
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
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: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
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
Proust Among the Nations: From Dreyfus to the Middle East by Jacqueline Rose
$44.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Offers a fresh and nuanced account of the rise of Jewish nationalism and the subsequent creation of Israel. Following Marcel Proust's heirs, Beckett and Genet, and a host of Middle Eastern writers, artists, and filmmakers, this title traces the shifting dynamic of memory and identity across the crucial ...Show more
QUESTION OF ZION by ROSE JACQUELINE
$32.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
For anyone concerned with the conflict in Israel-Palestine, this timely book offers a unique understanding of Zionism as an unavoidable psychic and historical force. Zionism is driven by the search for a homeland for the stateless and persecuted Jewish people. Yet it has infamously clashed with the rig ...Show more
Sexuality in the Field of Vision by Jacqueline Rose
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
A pivotal work in the history of feminism and a groundbreaking intervention into film theory, Sexuality in the Field of Vision is a brilliantly original exploration of the interface between feminism, psychoanalysis, semiotics and film theory
The Haunting of Sylvia Plath by Jacqueline Rose
$26.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | 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
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
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 nati ...Show more
The Last Resistance by Jacqueline Rose
$19.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | 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