The Twat Files: A Hilarious Sort-Of Memoir of Mistakes, Mishaps and Mess-Ups by Dawn French
$24.99 AUD
Category: World of Women
A hugely relatable, funny, honest and inspirational 'memoir of sorts' in which Dawn celebrates what it means to be gloriously, messily human. When I was younger I wanted to be an interesting, sophisticated, semi-heroic, multi-layered person. BUT. That kind of perfect is impossible. Being an actual twa ...Show more
Not Now, Not Ever: Ten years on from the misogyny speech by Julia Gillard
$35.00 AUD
Category: World of Women
Ten years on from the speech that stopped us all in our tracks – Julia Gillard’s misogyny speech. Where were you then? And where are we now? Then it was done. After staying silent, I’d had my say. At no time did I feel worked up or hotly angry. I felt strong, measured, controlled. Yet emotion did pla ...Show more
On Merit by Paula Matthewson
$14.99 AUD
Category: World of Women | Series: Little Books on Big Themes
Merit has very little to do with the increasing dominance of men in the modern in the Liberal Party. Yet Liberal women continue to defend it. Until now. On Meritexplores this imbalance, its implications for the party?s future, and how a pair of red shoes may spark a rebellion against the merit myth.
Translating Myself and Others by Jhumpa Lahiri
$29.99 AUD
Category: World of Women | Reading Level: near fine
Luminous essays on translation and self-translation by the award-winning writer and literary translator Translating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects on her emerging identity as a translator as well as ...Show more
The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins and the fight for women in science by Kate Zernike
$34.99 AUD
Category: World of Women
The story of how a group of determined, brilliant women used the power of the collective and the tools of science to inspire ongoing radical change. It shows that real power is collective power and that speaking up and allying yourself with likeminded others is one of the key pathways to change. This is ...Show more
En Garde by Sarah Hanson-Young
$14.99 AUD
Category: World of Women
When Sarah Hanson-Young called out the abuse she received from male parliamentarians as slut-shaming, she sparked a national conversation about the rampant sexism in politics. Placing the responsibility on women to defend themselves is the same cheap trick as asking, why didn’t she just fight back? Afte ...Show more
Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women by Victoria Smith
$32.99 AUD
Category: World of Women
What is about about women in their forties and beyond that seems to enrage - almost everyone?In the last few years, as identity politics has taken hold, middle-aged women have found themselves talked and written about as morally inferior beings, the face of bigotry, entitlement and selfishness, to be ig ...Show more
The Story of Art without Men by Katy Hessel
$55.00 AUD
Category: World of Women
The story of art for our times - one with women at its heart, brought together for the first time by the creator of @thegreatwomenartists How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century? And what is the Baroque anyway? Discover the ...Show more
The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende
$22.99 AUD
Category: World of Women
The wise, warm, defiant new book from literary legend Isabel Allende – a meditation on power, feminism and what it means to be a woman When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating. As a child, Isabel Allende watched her mother, abandoned by her husband, provide for her three s ...Show more
Losing It: Sex Education For The 21st Century by Sophia Smith Galer
$24.99 AUD
Category: World of Women
Why do so many of us know so little about sex? Clueless about everything from her own anatomy to relationships, Sophia Smith Galer’s sex education classes left her with more questions than answers. But what she didn’t know was that this lack of knowledge was about to turn her life upside down – as it do ...Show more
#MeToo: Stories From the Australian Movement by Miriam Sved, Christie Nieman, Maggie Scott and Natalie Kon-yu
$32.99 AUD
Category: World of Women | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
#MeToo is not just about famous people ... If #MeToo is going to ultimately make the big difference we all want to see, it's got to mean something for [any] woman who gets harassed. - Julia Gillard This is the first collection that aims to make sense of the #MeToo movement in Australia. A collection th ...Show more
Women's Work: A Reckoning with Home and Help by Megan Stack
$32.99 AUD
Category: World of Women | Reading Level: 3 Biography
When Megan Stack left her prestigious job as a foreign correspondent to have a baby and to work from her home in Beijing writing a book, she quickly realised that childcare and housework would consume the time she needed to write. This dilemma was resolved in the manner of many upper-class families and ...Show more