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Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art by Lauren Elkin
55.00 AUD
Category: Art
A landmark feminist intervention- a dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and art - and how we think about them. For decades, feminist artists have confronted the problem of how to tell the truth about their experiences as bodies. Queer bodies, sick bodies, racialised bodies, fema ...Show more
Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art by Lauren Elkin
27.99 AUD
Category: Art
Coming across the term "art monster" in Jenny Offill's 2014 novel Dept. of Speculation, Lauren Elkin was intrigued. What kinds of connections might there be between art and monstrosity, and how was it different when the artist in question was a woman? Art Monsters is a landmark feminist intervention i ...Show more
Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London by Lauren Elkin
24.99 AUD
Category: Travel
Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 by the Financial Times, Guardian, New Statesman, Observer, The Millions and Emerald Street "Flaneuse [flanne-euhze], noun, from the French. Feminine form of flaneur [flanne-euhr], an idler, a dawdling observer, usually found in cities. That is an imaginary definition. ...Show more
Flaneuse - Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London by Lauren Elkin
35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Reading Level: good-very good
'Flaneuse [flanne-euhze], noun, from the French. Feminine form of flaneur [flanne-euhr], an idler, a dawdling observer, usually found in cities. That is an imaginary definition.' If the word flaneur conjures up visions of Baudelaire, boulevards and bohemia - then what exactly is a flaneuse? In this glor ...Show more
No. 91/92: a Parisian Bus Diary by Lauren Elkin
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A LOVE LETTER TO PARIS, A MEDITATION ON COMMUNITY AND THE BEAUTY OF OBSERVING OTHERS Your telephone is precious. It may be envied. We recommend vigilance when using it in public. - Paris bus public notice In Autumn 2014, Lauren Elkin began keeping a diary of her bus commutes in the Notes app on her iP ...Show more
Scaffolding by Lauren Elkin
36.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The story of two couples who live in the same apartment in north-east Paris almost fifty years apart. In 2019, Anna, a psychoanalyst, is processing a recent miscarriage. Her husband, David, takes a job in London so she spends days obsessing over renovating the kitchen while befriending a younger woman ...Show more
The Bedroom: An Intimate History by Michelle Perrot; Lauren Elkin
49.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
The winner of France's prestigious Prix Femina Essai (2009), this imaginative and captivating book explores the many dimensions of the room in which we spend so much of our lives-the bedroom. Eminent cultural historian Michelle Perrot traces the evolution of the bedroom from the time of the ancient Gree ...Show more
The Inseparables: The newly discovered novel from Simone de Beauvoir by de Beauvoir, Simone, Levy, Deborah, Elkin, Lauren, Beauvoir, Sylvie le Bon de
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
VINTAGE CLASSICS FRENCH SERIES- beautiful flapped paperback editions showcasing the bestselling, most acclaimed French writers of the twentieth century.The lost novel from the author of The Second SexWhen Andree joins her school, Sylvie is immediately fascinated. Andree is small for her age, but walks w ...Show more
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