Who Gets to Be Smart: Privilege, Power and Knowledge
By: Bri Lee
3.65
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Bri Lee, best-selling and award-winning author of Eggshell Skull, asks Who gets to be smart? in thi…
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1. Fight Like a Girl
By: Clementine Ford
3.98
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
Personal and fearless - a call to arms for feminists new, old and as yet unrealised by one of our m… read more
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"A friend of mine once said to me that feminism helped to figure out a way of being a girl that doesn't hurt."-Clementine Ford, Fight Like a Girl
"Boys are given the universe in which to carve out their identities, the promise of infinite space for them to expand into and contract upon. Girls are allowed only enough room to be stars, and they m…"-Clementine Ford, Fight Like a Girl
"-no matter what we do, we'll never succeed in attaining the 'perfect' body or the 'perfect' face. This isn't just because perfection is an unattainable goal; it's because capitalism relies on people …"-Clementine Ford, Fight Like a Girl
"We know how unsafe the world is for us. We are like cliffs staring down at a raging sea, battered by winds and salt and spray and unable to wrench ourselves away from the supposed inevitability of it…"-Clementine Ford, Fight Like a Girl
2. Consent Laid Bare: Sex, Entitlement & the Distortion of Desire
By: Chanel Contos
4.56
Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition
The game-changing book about sex and consent that every woman - and man - should read In 2021, Chan… read more
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3. Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life
By: Anna Funder
4.13
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century… read more
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4. Bite Back: Feminism, Media, Politics, and Our Power to Change It All
By: Hannah Ferguson
4.29
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The Founder of Cheek Media Co. delivers the conversations we've been missing on everything from die… read more
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- feminism
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5. Storytellers: Questions, Answers and the Craft of Journalism
By: Leigh Sales
3.88
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Highly respected ABC anchor, bestselling author and hit podcaster Leigh Sales interviews the cream … read more
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- nonfiction
- australia
6. Love & Virtue
By: Diana Reid
3.91
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Feminism, power and sex play out through the eyes of young Australian uni students in a contemporar… read more
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- feminism
- adult
- australia
- audiobook
"Its feminism operated on the level of ‘Women in Medicine’ and ‘Women in Finance’ discussion panels, always conducted in a tone of revolutionary awe, as if any combination of women and profession were…"-Diana Reid, Love & Virtue
"I just don't want to mediate my whole identity through social media.' Eve resumed the vigorous hair brushing. 'I think photos should be a stolen moment in time. Not this thing on your phone: this way…"-Diana Reid, Love & Virtue
7. Love Stories
By: Trent Dalton
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Trent Dalton, Australia's best-loved writer, goes out into the world and asks a simple, direct ques… read more
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"True love is exposing all the pieces."-Trent Dalton, Love Stories
"Love is knowing when you've come home."-Trent Dalton, Love Stories
"You ever felt that kinda low? The kind you want to stay in?"-Trent Dalton, Love Stories
"She realises now that grief is the price she will willingly pay to have loved someone so deeply."-Trent Dalton, Love Stories
8. Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship
By: Clementine Ford
4.19
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
'Everyone's afraid that their daughters might be hurt. No one seems to be scared that their sons mi… read more
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- politics
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- essays
- australia
- sociology
- audiobook
"Not all men!" isn't just a mating call for the lazy and aggrieved, it's also a diversionary tactic used to shift attention away from the substantial issues of discrimination and oppression that impac…"-Clementine Ford, Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship
"Ah yes, the meritocracy. Isn't it amazing how so many of the 'best people for the job' always happen to be white, cis-het, middle-class men? It couldn't be that structural inequality and hierarchal p…"-Clementine Ford, Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship
"What I'm suggesting is that your impulse to assign meaning to something as arbitrary and functional as genitalia is born out of a cultural imperative to affix labels where none are necessary, and tha…"-Clementine Ford, Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship
"It doesn't matter how politically progressive your household is when it comes to aspirations outside the home and the limitless capabilites of women; if it's made clear within those four walls that i…"-Clementine Ford, Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship
9. Seeing Other People
By: Diana Reid
3.42
Format: 295 pages, Paperback
Which comes first—those you love, or those you want? Charlie’s skin was stinging. Not with heat … read more
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- audiobook
10. The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner
By: Grace Tame
3.98
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Grace Tame has never walked on middle ground. From a young age, her life was defined by uncertai… read more
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- nonfiction
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"I learned something about the commodification of trauma that day [Tame's appearance on the ABC's Q&A programme], which is that you have to take things into your own hands. If you don't speak, people …"-Grace Tame, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner
"I survived being Australian of the Year because I knew already that it wouldn't be a true reflection of my worth. I knew it would be ugly, at least in part. I came equipped with a glimpse of fame tha…"-Grace Tame, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner
"I frowned at Scott Morrison deliberately because, in my opinion, he has done and assisted in objectively terrible things. No matter what your politics are, the harm that was caused under his governme…"-Grace Tame, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner
11. Emotional Female
By: Yumiko Kadota
4.27
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Yumiko Kadota was every Asian parent's dream- model student, top of her class in medical school and… read more
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- audiobook
12. Green Dot
By: Madeleine Gray
3.71
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An irresistible and messy love story about the terrible allure of wanting something that promises n… read more
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- adult
- australia
- audiobook
13. I Don't: The Case Against Marriage
By: Clementine Ford
4.13
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Incendiary feminist and bestselling author Clementine Ford presents the inarguable case against mar… read more
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- politics
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- australia
- sociology
- audiobook
14. Who Gets to Be Smart: Privilege, Power and Knowledge
By: Bri Lee
3.65
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Bri Lee, best-selling and award-winning author of Eggshell Skull, asks Who gets to be smart? in thi… read more
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- australia
- society
- adult
- education
- sociology
- audiobook
15. Not Now, Not Ever: Ten years on from the misogyny speech
By: Julia Gillard
4.28
Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition
Then it was done. After staying silent, I’d had my say. At no time did I feel worked up or hotly an… read more
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16. No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison
By: Behrouz Boochani
3.91
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Winner of The Victorian Prize for Literature, and the Prize for Non-Fiction, Victorian Premier's Li… read more
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"At times the cooks express a small amount of generosity and pour half a glass of milk for every prisoner."-Behrouz Boochani, No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison
17. Tell Me Again
By: Amy Thunig
4.41
Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition
For years, Amy Thunig thought she knew all the details about the day she was born, often demanding … read more
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- australia
- audiobook
"Chapter 20-Part 2 "The hardest part of childhood with parents with these and are criminalised, isn’t necessarily life inside your home, it's how you are treated and mistreated by those outside your h…"-Amy Thunig, Tell Me Again
"I have been reading Amy Thunigs book. And this quote stood out to me. I really think this explains a lot about how AOD stigma and harmful prohibition drug policies that disproportionately criminalize…"-Amy Thunig, Tell Me Again
18. The Great Divide: Australia's Housing Mess and How to Fix It (Quarterly Essay #92)
By: Alan Kohler
4.31
Format: 161 pages, Kindle Edition
What caused Australia's housing crisis -- and how we might fix it One of the great mysteries of Au… read more
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19. See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence
By: Jess Hill
4.66
Format: 402 pages, Paperback
At the office of Safe Steps, Victoria’s dedicated 24/7 family violence response call centre, phone … read more
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"I don't bash you with my fists, I bash you with my emotions, to keep you under control."-Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence
"I explain patriarchy as a dual system of power: men's power over women, and some men's power over other men. - Michael Kimmel"-Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence
"Mangan is adamant: women's violence may cause distress to men in abusive relationships, but men are almost never in danger of being killed."-Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence
"Whether perpetrators abuse strategically or on impulse, however, they usually have one thing in common: a supercharged sense of entitlement."-Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence
20. The Most Important Job in the World
By: Gina Rushton
4.10
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
Should we become parents? It's a question that forces us to reckon with what we love and fear most … read more
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21. The One Thing We've Never Spoken About
By: Elfy Scott
4.29
Format: 324 pages, Paperback
An investigation into the failings of Australia’s mental healthcare system, grounded in a personal … read more
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