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Alvin Purple by Catharine Lumby
Category: Fiction | Series: Australian Screen Classics S.
One of the seminal films of the 1970s, "Alvin Purple" depicts Alvin's struggles with his irresistibility to women - from his school days and time as a waterbed salesman to his short-lived career as a sex therapist. The 'definitive ocker comedy', "Alvin Purple" survived a critical mauling and went on to ...Show more
Broken: Children, Parents and Family Courts by Camilla Nelson, Catharine Lumby
Category: Australian History
A devastating account of how Australia's family courts fail children, families and victims of domestic abuseThe family courts intimately affect the lives of those who come before them. Judges can decide where you are allowed to live and work, which school your child can attend and whether you are even p ...Show more
Frank Moorhouse: A Life (Large Print 16pt) by Catharine Lumby
Category: Biography
The definitive biography of one of Australia's best-known men of letters. Many writers fashion a career out of their writing. Some fashion brilliant careers. Very few, however, commit to their art in a manner that inflects every aspect of their own daily life. Frank Moorhouse was one of the rare writers ...Show more
Frank Moorhouse: A life by Catharine Lumby
Category: Australian Biography
The definitive biography of one of Australia's best-known men of letters. Many writers fashion a career out of their writing. Some fashion brilliant careers. Very few, however, commit to their art in a manner that inflects every aspect of their own daily life. Frank Moorhouse was one of the rare writers ...Show more
Porn Book, The by Catharine Lumby
Category: Australian History
Draws on wide-ranging empirical research to show the production, distribution and consumption of pornography, its content, its consumers and the public debates within which people make sense of it. This title provides insight into the everyday uses of pornography by ordinary consumers, and the place of ...Show more
The Age of Consent - Young People, Sexual Abuse and Agency by Kate Dow (Editor); Catharine Lumby (Editor); Kate Gleeson (Editor)
Category: Parenting
This book challenges received mainstream and scholarly ideas about how and why child abuse occurs and offers fresh ideas about understanding how we can enhance young people's agency and can make a difference to their lives by ensuring they have an opportunity to grow up developing their own voices and i ...Show more
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