Fight Like A Girl by Clementine Ford
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Category: Social Issues | Reading Level: very good
Personal and fearless - a call to arms for feminists new, old and as yet unrealised by one of our most outspoken feminist writers.
How Powerful We Are: Behind the scenes with one of Australia's leading activists by Sally Rugg
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Category: Social Issues
Even if you're not an activist (yet), at a time when the news is written for clicks and elections are foight with three-word slogans, it's crucial to preserve some record of events that isn't 'fake news' or political spin. In part, this book is my attempt to counter the re-writing of how Australia achie ...Show more
Magdalena: River of Dreams by Wade Davis
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Category: Social Issues
A captivating new book from Wade Davis - winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Into the Silence - that brings vividly to life the story of the great Rio Magdalena, illuminating Colombia's complex past, present, and future. Travellers often become enchanted with the first country that captures their he ...Show more
Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Motherhood by Lucy Jones
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Category: Social Issues
A radical new examination of the transition into motherhood and how it affects the mind, brain and bodyDuring pregnancy, childbirth, and early motherhood, women undergo a far-reaching physiological, psychological and social metamorphosis.There is no other time in a human's life course that entails such ...Show more
Nomadland by Jessica Bruder
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Category: Social Issues
The inspiration for the film 'Nomadland' starring Frances McDormand. From the beet fields of North Dakota to the campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labour pool, made up largely of transient older adults. These invisible casualti ...Show more
On the Grid: Australian Electricity in Transition by Guillaume Roger (Ed.)
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Category: Social Issues
Around the world and within Australia an energy transition is occurring. While engineering solutions are being developed to facilitate this transformation, the institutions governing Australia’s electricity market are failing to adjust rapidly enough to the new energy mix and to the demands on the power ...Show more
Pure Flame: On Mothers and Daughters by Michelle Orange
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Category: Social Issues
'Rich and moving' New York Times'A book that expands and breaks your heart' Adelle WaldmanA revelatory enquiry into selfhood, freedom, mortality, storytelling, and what it means to be a mother's daughterDuring one of the texting sessions that became our habit over the period I now think of as both late ...Show more
Queer Intentions - A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ + Culture by Amelia Abraham
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Category: Social Issues
'Eloquent, empathetic and passionate, this book will not just resonate with a new generation of queer people, but with all those who seek to be their allies. A brilliant book.' - Owen Jones Today, the options and freedoms on offer to LGBTQ+ people living in the West are greater than ever before. But is ...Show more
Revolting Prostitutes - The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights by Juno Mac; Molly Smith
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Category: Social Issues
Do you have to think that prostitution is good to support sex worker rights? How do sex worker rights fit with feminist and anti-capitalist politics? Is criminalising clients progressive - and can the police deliver justice? In Revolting Prostitutes, sex workers Juno Mac and Molly Smith bring a fresh ...Show more
The End of Forgetting - Growing up with Social Media by Kate Eichhorn
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Category: Social Issues
Thanks to Facebook and Instagram, our childhoods have been captured and preserved online, never to go away. But what happens when we can't leave our most embarrassing moments behind? Until recently, the awkward moments of growing up could be forgotten. But today we may be on the verge of losing the abi ...Show more
The Guilty Feminist: From our noble goals to our worst hypocrisies by Deborah Frances-White
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Category: Social Issues
In 2015 I described myself as 'guilty feminist' for the first time. My goals were noble but my concerns were trivial. I desperately wanted to close the pay gap, but I also wanted to look good sitting down naked. A funny, joyful, frank and inspiring book about embracing both feminism and our imperfectio ...Show more
The Little Book of Sociology - A Pocket Guide to the Study of Society by Rasha Barrage
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Category: Social Issues
If you've always wanted to know how societies function - and why sometimes they don't - this beginner's guide to sociology has got the essential theories and thinkers coveredSociology has almost limitless scope. From the smallest everyday interaction to the impact of vast systemic change, societies are ...Show more