Damned whores and God’s police: the Fury: women write about sex, power and colonisation of women in Australia by violence edited by Samantha Trenoweth. Anne Summers. New edition. Sydney: Richmond, Vic: Hardie Grant Books, 2015. NewSouth Publishing, 2016. 305.42 SUM 362.82 FUR

“Sexual harassment, domestic violence and date “In Australia violence against women is a silent rape had not been named although they certainly epidemic … [S]ome of Australia's best women existed when Damned whores and God’s police was first writers stare straight into the face of the monster and plot its published in 1975 … [They] are still with us and seem to be defeat.” – Back cover. increasing. The fight is far from over.” – Publisher website. Good night stories for rebel girls: 100 End of equality: the only way is women’s tales of extraordinary women by Elena liberation by Beatrix Campbell. London: Favilli & Francesca Cavallo. London: Seagull Books, 2013. 305.42 CAM Timbuktu Labs, 2016. YA 305.42 GOO

“Among liberal thinkers, there is an optimistic belief This book inspires girls with the stories of great that men and women are on a cultural journey women. Good night stories for rebel girls 2 is also toward equality – in the workplace, on the street, available. and in the home. But observation and evidence both tell us that in many ways this progress has stopped – and in some cases even Lean in: women, work, and the will to reversed.” – Back cover. lead by Sheryl Sandberg with Nell Scovell. Feminism from A-Z by Gayle E. Pitman. London: WH Allen, 2013. 305.42 SAN

Washington, DC: Magination Press, 2017. Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of 305.42 PIT Facebook, “examines why – despite the progress women have made – men still hold the vast Feminism from A to Z is an alphabetical primer on majority of leadership positions in government and industry … feminism for teen girls. LGBTIQ collection for She describes specific, practical steps women can take to young adults. combine professional achievement with personal fulfilment and demonstrates how men can benefit by supporting women in the Fight like a girl by Clementine Ford. workplace and at home.” – Back cover. Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 2016. 305.42 FOR Lean out by Dawn Foster. London: Repeater Books, 2016. 305.42 FOS “Online sensation, fearless feminist heroine and scourge of trolls and misogynists everywhere, “Sheryl Sandberg's business advice book Lean in Clementine Ford is a beacon of hope and was heralded as a defining moment in attitudes to inspiration to thousands of Australian women and girls … Fight women in business ... In her powerful debut work like a girl … exposes just how unequal the world continues to be Lean out, acclaimed journalist Dawn Foster unpicks for women.” – Back cover. how the purportedly feminist message of Sandberg's book neatly exempts patriarchy, capitalism and business from any Freedom fallacy: the limits of liberal responsibility for changing the position of women in contemporary feminism edited by Miranda Kiraly & culture.” – Back cover. Meagan Tyler. Ballarat, Vic: Connor Court, Not just lucky: why women do the work 2015. 305.42 FRE but don’t take the credit by Jamila Rizvi. Contemporary feminism takes “on topics from Docklands, Vic: Viking, 2017. 305.42 RIZ pornography and prostitution to female genital mutilation, from women’s magazines and marriage to sexual “Australian women are suffering from a crisis of violence. Contributors in this collection argue that the kind of confidence about work. Accustomed to being liberal feminism currently rising to prominence does little to overlooked and undervalued, even when women challenge the status quo.” – Publisher website. do get to the top, they explain their success away as ‘luck’ …This unashamedly feminist career manifesto is for women who worry they’ll look greedy if they ask for more money. It’s for women who dream big but dread the tough conversations. It’s for women who get nervous, stressed and worried, and seem to overthink just about everything.” – Back cover.

Hot topics Women On gender, labor, and inequality by Ruth Woman’s inhumanity to woman by Milkman. Champaign, IL: University of Phyllis Chesler. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Illinois Press, 2016. 305.42 MIL Books, 2009. 305.42 CHE

“Early chapters focus on … women's labor during “Women's aggression may not take the same form the Great Depression and the World War II years. as men's, but girls and women are indeed In the book's second half, Milkman turns to the aggressive, often indirectly and mainly toward one past fifty years, a period that saw a dramatic decline in gender another. They judge harshly, hold grudges, gossip, exclude, and inequality even as growing class imbalances created greater- disconnect from other women … Chesler urges us to look within, than-ever class disparity among women.” – Publisher website. to treat other women realistically, ethically, and kindly, and to forge bold and compassionate alliances.” – Author website. Speaking out: a 21st-century handbook for women & girls by Tara Moss. Sydney: Women and power edited by Julianne HarperCollins, 2016. 808.51 MOS Schultz. Griffith Review 40 (Winter 2013) 305.42 SCH The author “offers advice on preparation, speaking out and negotiating public spaces. With a special “In one generation, women have taken control of focus on public speaking, writing, social media and their economic fate, risen to the most powerful online safety, she offers tips on how to research, form arguments, political positions in the land and climbed to the top find support and handle criticism.” – Back cover. of the corporate ladder. Yet a misogynist undercurrent persists.” – Publisher website. Stop fixing women: why building fairer workplaces is everyone's business by Women & power: a manifesto by Mary Catherine Fox. Coogee, NSW: NewSouth Beard. Profile Books, 2017. 305.42 BEA Publishing, 2017. 331.4 FOX "With wry wit [the author] shows how history has The author “argues that insisting that women fix treated powerful women. Her examples range from themselves won’t fix the system, the system built the classical world to the modern day, exploring the by men. Catherine Fox does more than identify and analyse the cultural underpinnings of misogyny, considering the nature of the problem. Her book is an important tool for male public voice of women, how we look at women who exercise leaders who say they want to make a difference.” – Publisher power, our cultural assumptions about women's relationship with website. power, and how few powerful women resist being packaged into a male template.” – Book jacket. What works: gender equality by design by Iris Bohnet. Cambridge, Mass: The Women in action in the Federation: a Belknap Press of Harvard University series of articles by Gloria Phelan. Press, 2016. 331.4 BOH Sydney: NSW Teachers Federation, 1981. 331.88 PHE The author “points out dozens of evidence-based interventions that could be adopted right now and This collection of 12 articles, each first published demonstrates how research is addressing gender bias, improving in Education in 1975-1976, highlights the role lives and performance.” – Publisher website. played by women in a broad range of Federation activities, not only those of special interest to women (such as equal pay).

Who cooked Adam Smith’s dinner?: a Women of steel: gender, jobs & justice story about women and economics by at BHP by Carla Gorton & Pat Brewer. Katrine Marçal. London: Portobello Books, Ultimo, NSW: Resistance Books, 2015. 2015. 306.3 MAR 331.4 GOR

“Economics has told us a story about how the world “[T]he inspiring story of a landmark struggle in works … Now it’s time to change the story. In this Australia’s industrial and political history. In the courageous look at the mess we’re in, Katrine Marçal tackles the 1980s, 34 mostly migrant, unemployed women took on Australia’s biggest myth of our time and invites us to kick out economic man biggest corporation, Broken Hill Propriety (BHP) in a David and once and for all.” – Publisher website. Goliath struggle known as the ‘Jobs for Women’ campaign, and won.” – Back cover. Why women need quotas by Vicky Pryce. London: Biteback Publishing, 2015. Women workers and the trade unions by 331.1 PRY Sarah Boston. Revised Edition. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 2015. 331.478 BOS “The USA has quotas for women in top jobs, so too do the Scandinavian nations. Britons hate the idea “Sarah Boston recounts the story of women of positive discrimination – though that is what men workers from the early nineteenth century to the have enjoyed for centuries. It's time to get tough, argues top present day: the struggles and strikes, successes economist Vicky Pryce.” – Publisher website. and failures in their strenuous efforts to organise and win recognition from employers and male trade unionists.” – Publisher The wife drought by Annabel Crabb. website. North Sydney, NSW: Random House Australia, 2014. 306.8 CRA

This book is “full of candid and funny stories from the author’s work in and around politics and the media [and] historical nuggets about the role of ‘The Wife’ in Australia.” – Back cover. RESOURCES AVAILABLE FOR LOAN FROM THE LIBRARY Updated June 2018