Alison Bartlett

Text and illustrations reveal the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of the tiger.

A cat wanders past green cabbages, a blue gate, pink piglets, a red hen, and other colorful sights of various sizes on its way to visit a family of black-and-white kittens.

In this book Alison Bartlett reflects on the implications of French feminist theory during the late 1980s early 1990s, especially its call for a writing practice which resists established patterns of representation and offers new versions of women's experience. Through an analysis of then contemporary Australian writing by Ania Walwicz, Margaret Coombs, Fiona Place, Inez Baranay, Susan Hawthorne, Sue Woolfe and Davida Allen, this book outlines some of the complexities of contemporary feminist art. Bartlett blurs the divide between critic and writer by including her own fictocritical speculations and inserting comments by the writers generated through a series of interviews and letters, which are included.

A mother bird leaves her hedgerow home in search of breakfast for her babies. The activities included in this rhythmic lift-the-flap story include counting, looking at animal camouflage, & a find-the-shape game on the extended gatefold.

Jessica Strange is a cat, but she doesn't know it. She is not quite sure what kind of animal she is at all. Will the other farmyard animals be able to help her out?

This book provides a contemporary review of the social practices and representations of flirting. In the wake of #MeToo, flirting has become entangled with stories of harassment and abuse that have generated both outrage and confusion. Nevertheless, this book argues that negotiating intimacy has always been an ambiguous social practice that can be risky and fraught, and examines how the presiding perception of flirting is constructed in contemporary cultural media. The book interrogates the relation between flirting and scandal, the kinds of scripts available in popular culture, and relations to feminism and other current social theories around gender and sexuality. It asks the questions; how can desire be declared? How can playfulness be understood? And what kind of language is available to speak about these complexities? Drawing from a range of media forms such as public scandal, reality television, and teen film, Flirting in the Era of #MeToo argues that contemporary flirting is both provocative and conservative in its negotiation of an assemblage of shifting values, and considers possibilities for social innovation and change in light of these competing tensions.