'One of the most important books about gay culture in recent times' The Quietus Long-listed for the Polari First Book Prize In 1984 the pulsing electronics and soft vocals of Smalltown Boy would become an anthem uniting gay men.
How does it feel to be constantly regarded as a potential threat, strip-searched at every airport? Or be told that, as an actress, the part you're most fitted to play is 'wife of a terrorist'? How does it feel to have words from your native language misused, misappropriated and used aggressively towards you?
A continuation of the New York Times bestselling series, Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Immigrant Women Who Changed the World recognizes women who leave their homeland to seek refuge, to realize unattainable dreams, and to share their invaluable contributions with the world.
A pleasingly absurd caper where kids outwit crooks, ghost are let out of the bag, and grandparents refuse to behave! From beloved and best-selling author Malorie Blackman.
Learn from some of the most influential women who changed our world! Great Quotes from Great Women features the inspirational words of twenty-nine great women, including Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Parks, Helen Keller, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Mother Teresa, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Michelle Obama, Sally Ride, and many others.
Gypsies and Jesus: A Traveller Theology identifies and threads cultural strands (beliefs and customs, narratives and histories, and rituals and traditions) from Gypsy and Traveller culture into a coherent message that speaks of collective piety and cultural purity.
This is the first published research from the UK to address the neglected topic of the increasing settlement of Gypsies and Travellers in conventional housing. It highlights the complex and emergent tensions and dynamics inherent when policy and popular discourse combine to frame ethnic populations within a narrative of movement.
Gypsy and Traveller Law is the definitive legal textbook covering all areas of law affecting the Travelling community. It is also the only detailed reference guide to mobile homes legislation in England and Wales. This fully updated third edition spans all of the recent and far-reaching changes in the legal landscape.
Relations with the state and with non-Gypsies have been central to the shaping of the lived identity of Gypsy people. This book examines how the state deals with Gypsies and travellers, and how they deal with the state. It also provides a comparative study of Gypsy politics in Britain and abroad.
Drawing inspiration from mythic figures and archetypes, Dr Sharon Blackie reclaims the mid-years as a liberating, alchemical moment rich with possibility and the elder years as a path to dynamic influence.
As the world grows ever noisier, Alice Vincent - twice Wainwright Prize-longlisted author of Why Women Grow - returns with a journey into sound that will ring true for many women