History & Culture

Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty An act of rebellion and a reclamation of beauty An unmissable, radical essay from Emma Dabiri, bestselling author of Don't Touch My Hair and What White...

The True Power of Women and the Science That Shows It Are women more nurturing than men? Are men more promiscuous than women? Are males the naturally dominant sex? And...

What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex An engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that's obsessed with sexual attraction, and...

Illustrated by Rachael Sarra Stories of Strength and Resilience from Australia’s First Women Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and society has existed on this continent for millennia. It's a...

A revamped Magabala classic by Miles Franklin award‑winning author Alexis Wright. First published in 1997, this vivid portrayal of how the Indigenous people of Tennant Creek worked together to achieve...

A Visual History of 100 Years of African Women An unprecedented visual history of African women told in striking and subversive historical photographs — featuring an Introduction by Edwidge Danticat...

The LGBTQIA+ Dictionary of Lingo and Colloquial Expressions A landmark reference guide to the LGBTQIA+ community's contributions to the English language-an intersectional, inclusive, playfully illustrated glossary featuring more than 800...

A critically acclaimed analysis of anti-Muslim racism from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries, in a fully revised and expanded second edition.In this incisive account, leading scholar of Islamophobia Deepa...

A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua — by the author of Annie John. If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will...

From the editor of This Bridge Called My Back, Cherríe Moraga charts her own coming-of-age alongside her mother's decline, and also tells the story of the Mexican American diaspora Native...

The National Aboriginal Educational Committee and the development of Aboriginal educational policy By the late 1960s, Indigenous education in Australia was in crisis. When Whitlam swept to power in 1972,...

The essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde The woman's place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it...

A Walk in the HimalayasIn this acclaimed travel memoir Jamaica Kincaid chronicles a spectacular and exotic three-week trek through the Himalayan land of Nepal, where she and her companions are...

At the Bottom of the Riveris Jamaica Kincaid’s first published work, a selection of inter-connected prose poems told from the perspective of a young Afro-Caribbean girl. Collecting pieces written for...

‘By thinking about gendered inequality as rooted in something unalterable within us, we fail to see it for what it is: something more fragile that has had to be constantly...

The Return of Race Science Financial Times Book of the Year Telegraph Top 50 Books of the Year Guardian Book of the Year New Statesman Book of the Year Where...