Books to Read this International Women’s Day

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Inconvenient Women: Australian radical writers 1900–1970

Jacqueline Kent

Acclaimed biographer Jacqueline Kent traces the social and political issues that inspired – and often hampered – Australian radical women writers and their desire to change the world.

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Damned Whores and God's Police

Sexual harassment, domestic violence and date rape had not been named, although they certainly existed, when Damned Whores and God's Police

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Take Flight: Incredible stories of Australian women who reach for the sky

From balancing on a wing tip to paragliding with an eagle, Take Flight tells the stories of Australian women who have leapt, tumbled and dived, and reached for the stars.

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Travelling to Tomorrow: The modern women who sparked Australia’s romance with America

Yves Rees rewrites the story of Australian–US relations by spotlighting ten trailblazing women whose extraordinary lives have largely been forgotten.

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Breaking the Boss Bias: How to get more women into leadership

Award-winning author Catherine Fox maps out seven ways to recognise and beat boss bias.

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Hazzard and Harrower: The letters

Edited by Brigitta Olubas, Susan Wyndham

Two extraordinary writers, one difficult mother and a vanished literary world.

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The End of the Morning

Charmian Clift, edited by Nadia Wheatley

The never-before-published novel by Charmian Clift.

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Sneaky Little Revolutions

edited by Nadia Wheatley

From her wild bohemian years on Hydra to her radical feminist writings, Charmian Clift is a larger-than-life personality of Australian literature.

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Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging

Peripathetic is an essay collection exploring globalised identities in flux.

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How to Knit a Human: A memoir

How do you write a memoir when your memories have been taken? She awakens in hospital, greeted by nurses and patients she doesn’t recognise, but who address her with familiarity. She decides to untangle the clues.

Women and Whitlam: Revisiting the revolution

Edited by Michelle Arrow

Three generations of women explore the trailblazing Whitlam era.

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Those Dashing McDonagh Sisters: Australia’s first female filmmaking team

Introducing the McDonagh sisters … a trio of extraordinary and ground-breaking filmmakers.

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Exquisitely written, Eda Gunaydin’s essays unsettle neat descriptions of inheritance, belonging and place.

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Edith Blake’s War: The only Australian nurse killed in action during the First World War

Krista Vane-Tempest

Eating with My Mouth Open

'To eat is to build upon our collective story. We use food to say, again and again, who we are.'

Katerina Bryant

In the tradition of Siri Hustvedt's The Shaking Woman , Bryant blends memoir with literary and historical analysis to explore women's medical treatment. Hysteria

Gender Politics

Edited by Zareh Ghazarian, Katrina Lee-Koo

The Thinking Woman

Julienne van Loon

WINNER of the Australian Book Design Awards 2020 Best Designed Autobiography/Biography/Memoir Nonfiction Cover