The Llama Parlour
The Llama Parlour

Author: Kathy Lette

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2010-01-01

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 140880509X

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A reissued edition of a classic chick-lit novel, from the bestselling author of How to Kill Your Husband (and other handy household hints)

A Stitch in Time
A Stitch in Time

Author: Kathy Lette

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2005-08-02

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 0743273249

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It's brains versus Botox Lizzie's life is so perfect she has to look down to see cloud nine...until she realizes she's about to hit the dreaded four-oh. For most women, turning forty is more dangerous than wearing a bikini thong in a big surf. Not Lizzie. Until, that is, she loses her job to a younger, more telegenic journalist -- and her husband to a sex goddess who keeps fit by doing step aerobics off her ego. That's when she starts to wonder about brains versus Botox. For Lizzie's sister, beauty is one of the most natural and lovely things money can buy. But must Lizzie go under the knife to win back the man she loves? The answer is as obvious as a pre-1990s nose job. This book will have you in stitches...literally! Love, adultery, death, and a disastrous bikini wax

Postfeminism in Context
Postfeminism in Context

Author: Margaret Henderson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-10-21

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1351717642

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Postfeminism in Context studies the representation of women in Australian popular culture over the past three decades to locate postfeminism in a specific time and place. Margaret Henderson and Anthea Taylor argue that ‘postfeminism’, as a critical term, has been too often deployed in ways that fail to account for historical and cultural specificity. This book analyses Australian popular culture – chick lit novels; ‘dramedy’ television shows; women’s magazines; YouTube beauty vlogs; self-help manuals; and newspapers – to reveal the tensions, contradictions and ambiguities that have always been constitutive of postfeminism, including in Australia. Examining how these popular forms intervene in dominant conversations about contemporary Australian femininities, Postfeminism in Context maps the ways in which various aspects of Australia’s history and national identity have shaped its postfeminism. While Henderson and Taylor identify some of the limited postfeminist tropes and patterns of representation evident in comparable locales, they also find that Australian popular culture has responded to feminism in a much more hopeful way. Adding some much-needed cultural specificity to the ongoing debate around this loaded term, Postfeminism in Context is essential reading for those interested in Australian popular culture, feminism, and the gendered politics of representation.

After the Blues
After the Blues

Author: Kathy Lette

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2024-10-31

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1035901617

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In the daring, dazzling and hilarious sequel to Kathy Lette's best-selling debut, Puberty Blues, Debbie and her girlfriends reveal what women really talk about when men aren't around... It's the kaleidoscopic 1980s, a time of perms, shoulder pads, Blondie and Bowie, prawn cocktails, fondue parties and mistaking promiscuity for feminism and Debbie has run away to the inner-city world of punk rock, new mates and R-Rated adventures. Becoming a grown up is tricky especially when facing off against married men and misogynistic bosses, and Debbie realises that the only people she can rely on to her make sense of it all are her girlfriends. Regular girls' nights out prove cheaper than therapy - when friends can strip off to their emotional underwear, in a psychological strip tease which reveals all. It's the one night where all the truths come out....the good, bad and bawdy. With equal parts humour and pathos, Kathy Lette, one of the pioneering voices of contemporary feminism, in a re-write of her second novel GIRLS NIGHT OUT, exposes all the fun and foolish things girls do when scrabbling to find our high-heeled feet in the world. Praise for Kathy Lette: 'Fabulous, fast-paced, funny & unapologetically female. Nobody does it better.' DEBORAH FRANCES-WHITE, THE GUILTY FEMINIST 'Deliciously rude and darkly funny, but with compassion and humanity at its heart. Read with relish.' NICOLE KIDMAN 'Kathy Lette can turn from raunchy farce to the most tender emotion in a trice.' STEPHEN FRY

The Revenge Club
The Revenge Club

Author: Kathy Lette

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2024-02-27

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 1035901269

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'Fast moving and frothing with the fun kind of female fury' JO BRAND WHEN THE ODDS ARE AGAINST YOU, IT'S TIME TO GET EVEN. Matilda, Jo, Penny and Cressy are all women at the top of their game; so imagine their surprise when they start to be personally overlooked and professionally pushed aside by less-qualified men. Only they're not going down without a fight. Society might think the women have passed their amuse-by dates but the Revenge Club have other plans. After all, why go to bed angry when you could stay up and plot diabolical retribution? Let the games begin... PRAISE FOR KATHY LETTE: 'Deliciously rude and darkly funny' Nicole Kidman 'Unputdownable' Stephen Fry 'The thinking lady's hornbag' Kath and Kim