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Complaint! by Sara Ahmed
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $26.66In Complaint! Sara Ahmed examines what we can learn about power from those who complain about abuses of power. Drawing on oral and written testimonies from academics and students who have made... -
The Promise of Happiness by Sara Ahmed
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $20.56The Promise of Happiness is a provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy. It asks what follows when we make our desires and even our own happiness conditional on the happiness of... -
Willful Subjects by Sara Ahmed
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $24.54In Willful Subjects Sara Ahmed explores willfulness as a charge often made by some against others. One history of will is a history of attempts to eliminate willfulness from the will. Delving into... -
Living a Feminist Life by Sara Ahmed
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $24.54In Living a Feminist Life Sara Ahmed shows how feminist theory is generated from everyday life and the ordinary experiences of being a feminist at home and at work. Building on legacies of feminist... -
The Cultural Politics of Emotion by Sara Ahmed
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $32.11This is a bold take on the crucial role of emotion in politics. Emotions work to define who we are as well as shape what we do and this is no more powerfully at play than in the world of politics... -
Willful Subjects by Sara Ahmed 9780822357674
RRP: $110.94Booksplease Price: $89.77In Willful Subjects Sara Ahmed explores willfulness as a charge often made by some against others. One history of will is a history of attempts to eliminate willfulness from the will. Delving into... -
No!: The Art and Activism of Complaining Sara Ahmed 9781558613683
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $15.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558613683Author Sara AhmedFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint -
The Feminist Killjoy Handbook by Sara Ahmed 9781802061895
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91'Not only a dazzling analysis of the workings of sexism, but a balm for the soul. It will teach you how to survive and how to transform the world' Hannah DawsonWe have to keep saying it because they... -
Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others by Sara Ahmed
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $22.24In this groundbreaking work, Sara Ahmed demonstrates how queer studies can put phenomenology to productive use. Focusing on the "orientation" aspect of "sexual orientation" and the "orient" in... -
What's the Use?: On the Uses of Use by Sara Ahmed 9781478006503
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.53In What's the Use? Sara Ahmed continues the work she began in The Promise of Happiness and Willful Subjects by taking up a single word-in this case, use-and following it around. She shows how use... -
On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life by Sara Ahmed
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $22.34What does diversity do? What are we doing when we use the language of diversity? Sara Ahmed offers an account of the diversity world based on interviews with diversity practitioners in higher... -
Differences that Matter: Feminist Theory and Postmodernism by Sara Ahmed 9780521592253
Booksplease Price: $121.92Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
No Is Not a Lonely Utterance: The Art and Activism of Complaining by Sara Ahmed 9781802069341
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.96'Remarkable . . . this book is the hope that so many people are searching for' Zimmer MagazineTo complain is an intimate, dangerous act. Whether it’s speaking up about racism in the workplace or... -
The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way by Sara Ahmed 9781541603752
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $23.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541603752Author Sara AhmedFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint -
Livestreaming: An Aesthetics and Ethics of Technical Encounter by EL Putnam 9781517917098
RRP: $11.61Booksplease Price: $10.47An inquiry into how livestreaming can help us meaningfully connectLivestreaming is ubiquitous in our Covid-19-inflected era. In this book, EL Putnam takes up the implications of this technology,... -
Off the Beaten Track - The Story of My Unconventional Life by Saeeda Bano
RRP: $20.58Booksplease Price: $13.18Saeeda Bano was the first woman in India to work as a radio newsreader, known then and still as the doyenne of Urdu broadcasting. Over her unconventional and courageous life, she walked out of a... -
To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe Akwugo Emejulu 9780745339474
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $25.59This book brings together activists, artists and scholars of colour to show how Black feminism and Afrofeminism are being practiced in Europe today, exploring their differing social positions in... -
Become Ungovernable: An Abolition Feminist Ethic for Democratic Living by H.L.T. Quan 9780745349114
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $19.66'Phenomenal' Angela Y. Davis 'An elegantly written masterpiece' Barbara Ransby Become Ungovernable is a provocative new work of political thought setting out to reclaim 'freedom', 'justice',... -
Bodies of Sound: Becoming a Feminist Ear Sarah Shin 9781739371715
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.20Bodies of Sound began by enquiring into how sonic experience is intervening in realms such as gender, memory, disability justice, anti-colonial ways of knowing, and anti-war movements - responding to... -
Literary Theory: An Anthology Julie Rivkin (Connecticut College, USA) 9781118707852
Booksplease Price: $42.20The new edition of this bestselling literary theory anthology has been thoroughly updated to include influential texts from innovative new areas, including disability studies, eco-criticism, and... -
Oh Hell No by Chronicle Books
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.49There's a time for yes-and there's a time for no. Oh Hell No! is a collection of art and essays that serve a much-needed reminder to say no to anything that might waste our precious energy. ... -
Abolition. Feminism. Now. by Angela Y. Davis 9780241543757
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86In this landmark work, four of the world's leading scholar-activists issue an urgent call for a truly intersectional, internationalist, abolitionist feminism.As a politics and as a practice,... -
Making Space for Indigenous Feminism by Gina Starblanket 9781773635507
Booksplease Price: $32.22The third edition of the iconic collection Making Space for Indigenous Feminism features feminist, queer and two-spirit voices from across generations and locations. Feminism has much to offer... -
Uncut Funk: A Contemplative Dialogue by Bell Hooks
RRP: $46.43Booksplease Price: $44.78In an awesome meeting of minds, cultural theorists Stuart Hall and bell hooks met for a series of wide-ranging conversations on what Hall sums up as "life, love, death, sex." From the trivial to the... -
Trans/Feminisms by Susan Stryker 9780822368489
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.62This special double issue of TSQ goes beyond the simplistic dichotomy between an exclusionary transphobic feminism and an inclusive trans-affirming feminism. Exploring the ways in which trans issues... -
How to Make Your Mother Cry: Fictions by Sejal Shah 9781959000136
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52From the author of This Is One Way to Dance, linked genre-queer short stories braided with images and ephemera explore the experiences of growing up and living as a diasporic Gujarati woman searching... -
What the Oceans Remember: Searching for Belonging and Home by Sonja Boon 9781771125536
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.23Sonja Boon's heritage is complicated. Although she has lived in Canada for more than 30 years, she was born in the UK to a Surinamese mother and a Dutch father. An invitation to join a family tree... -
A Flat Place by Noreen Masud 9780241994337
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.08SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024Raw and radical, strange and beguiling - a love letter to Britain's... -
Cruel Optimism by Lauren Berlant
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $22.24A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flourishing. Offering bold new ways of conceiving the present, Lauren Berlant describes the cruel... -
New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency, and Politics by Diana H. Coole 9780822347538
RRP: $121.26Booksplease Price: $97.33New Materialisms brings into focus and explains the significance of the innovative materialist critiques that are emerging across the social sciences and humanities. By gathering essays that... -
The Affect Theory Reader by Melissa Gregg
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $26.16This field-defining collection consolidates and builds momentum in the burgeoning area of affect studies. The contributors include many of the central theorists of affect-those visceral forces... -
Tangled in Terror: Uprooting Islamophobia Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan 9780745345413
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $12.76'Lyrical and uncompromising - Suhaiymah writes to disrupt' - gal-dem Islamophobia is everywhere. It is a narrative and history woven so deeply into our everyday lives that we don't even notice it... -
Bordering Britain: Law, Race and Empire by Nadine El-Enany
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.44(B)ordering Britain argues that Britain is the spoils of empire, its immigration law is colonial violence and irregular immigration is anti-colonial resistance. In announcing itself as postcolonial... -
Israel/Palestine and the Queer International by Sarah Schulman
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $22.24In this chronicle of political awakening and queer solidarity, the activist and novelist Sarah Schulman describes her dawning consciousness of the Palestinian liberation struggle. Invited to Israel... -
Abolition. Feminism. Now by Angela Y. Davis
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $15.26Abolition. Feminism. Now. is a celebration of freedom work, a movement genealogy, a call to action, and a challenge to those who think of abolition and feminism as separate-even...