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Brilliant lawyer Audrey Mendes is pushing 40, but she has never made partner. Audrey gets constantly bulldozed and taken for granted by her extroverted colleagues at work, and her home life is lonely, eccentric. She spends nights in with her pet rabbit, between casual relationships, seeing her ageing parents, and inexplicably, buying baby clothes despite never having had a child. One evening, Audrey gets ignored at the bottle shop and nicks off with a bottle of vino.
A tale of power, intrigue, corruption and murder unfolds, as the possibility of romance meets Carita’s hard-headed realisation that swapping her profession for a marriage marked by radical power imbalance would be to trade one form of sexual bondage for another. It was the beginning of a groundswell movement concerned primarily with gender and sexuality that seriously rocked the ship of state . In this ambitious, big-picture survey of our evolving culture, the authors examine the ways it has subsequently played out, especially regarding citizenship. There are lapses into academic-speak, but there is a strong sense of the tumult of the past 50 years and the anger that fuelled it.
In this academic, but often witty examination of the phenomenon of “creative industries”, Justin O’Connor argues that art and culture are intrinsic to being human, both creating it and in coming to understand how we want to live.
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