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Mothers - An Essay on Love and Cruelty by Jacqueline Rose
$24.99 NZD
Category: Society & Culture
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
Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty by Jacqueline Rose
$28.00 NZD
Category: Parenting | 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
On Violence and On Violence Against Women by Jacqueline Rose
$28.00 NZD
Category: Health & Wellbeing
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
$32.99 NZD
Category: Feminism
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
The Haunting of Sylvia Plath by Jacqueline Rose
$29.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction | 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 Plague: Living death in our times by Jacqueline Rose
$33.00 NZD
Category: No Category
A collection of essays imagining a world in which a radical respect for death might exist alongside a fairer distribution of the earth's wealth, by one of our leading thinkers.
The Question of Zion by Jacqueline Rose
$86.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy, Spirituality & Religion
Zionism was inspired as a movement, yet it has trampled on the rights of Arabs in Palestine. Today it has become so controversial that it defies understanding and trumps reasoned public debate. So argues Rose, who uses her political and psychoanalytical skills to take an unprecedented look at Zionism. ...Show more
Women in Dark Times by Jacqueline Rose
$22.99 NZD
Category: Feminism
Jacqueline Rose's new book begins with three remarkable women: revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg; German-Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon, persecuted by family tragedy and Nazism; film icon and consummate performer Marilyn Monroe. Together these women have a shared story to tell, as they blaze a tr ...Show more
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