How would you feel, as a guest, about sitting in a suburban living room that is for women only?What if you wanted a baby but as a single woman could not have one outside of a marriage?Could you stay home to mourn a husband for four months and ten days?Headstrong Daughters takes us inside the lives of Muslim women in Australia today. They are working professionals, mothers, and students. At home they are finding ways to stay true to ...

Every day, she rewrites herself. Until there's nothing left to rewrite.In a future that feels like today, a young woman receives a strange device that lets her choose who she wants to become. Smarter. Bolder. More beautiful. Less human.Told in haunting diary entries, this is a story about control, identity, and the terrifying allure of self-perfection.For readers who love character-driven sci-fi with a slow burn and a deep philosophical undercurrent.

We call the obsession with collecting household items for married life the glory garage syndrome. We're talking serious shopping here and it affects many Lebanese girls long before an engagement ring is on their finger.A generation ago, our parents migrated to Australia as young men and women, leaving their families behind in Lebanon. They worked hard in factories and shops and taxis in their new country. We were born here and consider ourselves Australian, but we don't want to den...

This collection of more than a dozen essays focuses on the political dynamics of race, class, and nationalism in the contemporary Caribbean. Despite the plethora of studies on nationalism in the Caribbean, few have attempted to look at the phenomenon as a political invention that does not—and cannot—serve the interests of all: how essentialist, reductive, overdetermining nationalism is a political and conceptual confusion that forever stalls the project of universal human emancipation....