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To celebrate International Women’s Day, we’ve put together a short list of recommended reads from our Academic division. These books take a closer look at the lived experiences of women around the world and showcase some of the meaningful contributions women are making to create a more equitable future.
When Nina Jankowicz's first book on online disinformation was profiled in The New Yorker, she expected attention -- but not the ensuing avalanche of abuse and online harassment, which came predominantly from men.
Drawing on rigorous research into the treatment of Kamala Harris and other political and public figures, Nina uses her own experiences to provide a step-by-step plan for dealing with harassment, abuse, doxxing and disinformation in online spaces.
The result is a must-read for researchers, journalists and all women with a profile in the online space.
Since the publication of her landmark book The Sexual Politics of Meat, ecofeminist Carol J. Adams and her readers have continued to document and hold to account the degrading interplay of language about women, domesticated animals, and meat in advertising, politics, and media. Serving as sequel and visual companion, this book charts the continued influence of this language and the fight against it.
This new edition includes more than 300 images and brings the book up to date to include expressions of misogyny in online media, the #MeToo movement, and the impact of Donald Trump and white supremacy on our political language. Never has this book--or Adams's analysis--been more relevant.
Fetishized, demonized, celebrated, and outlawed, the high heel is central to the iconography of modern womanhood. But are high heels good? Are they feminist? What does it mean for a woman (or, for that matter, a man) to choose to wear them?
Meditating on the complex nature of sexual identity and the performance of gender, High Heel moves from film to fairy-tale, from foot binding to feminism, and from the golden ratio to glam rock. Summer Brennan considers this most provocative of fashion accessories as a nexus of desire and struggle, sex and society, violence and self-expression -- setting out to understand what it means to be a woman by walking a few hundred years in her shoes.
Acclaimed writer Elif Shafak writes a letter to Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand, after the Christchurch attack. Actress Yasmine Al Massri pens a poem about war for her mother. Activist and TV presenter June Sarpong addresses designer Diane Von Furstenberg.
These are a few of the moving and insightful letters that make up From Women to the World, a collection compiled by journalist, author and executive Elizabeth Filippouli. Bringing together writing from a global group of accomplished women, the result is extraordinary, heartfelt missives to historical figures, mentors, family members and inspiring ordinary people.
This book is more than a simple collection of letters - it shows a new model of leadership based on emotional intelligence and demonstrates how women have the wisdom to inspire, motivate and reinvent our world.
When Linda Tuhiwai Smith’s Decolonizing Methodologies was first published, it ignited a passion for research change that respected Indigenous peoples and knowledges, and campaigned to reclaim Indigenous ways of knowing and being.
Twenty years on, this collection celebrates the breadth and depth of how Indigenous writers are shaping the decolonizing research world today. With contributions from Indigenous female researchers, this collection offers the much-needed academic space to distinguish methodological approaches, and overcome the novelty confines of being marginal voices.
Carnage in the classroom, misogynists in high office, sociopaths in uniform, masculinity is a killer. From styles of dress to the stunted capacity for expressing a diversity of emotions, becoming a man involves killing off and repudiating anything that is deemed feminine in our society. Masculinity, Cremin provocatively declares, is a generic disorder of a sick society that afflicts all of us.
From the perspective of a trans woman raised to be a man, this book maps the disorder and speculates on the possible means to overcome it. It argues that instead of signifying weakness, catastrophes can be prevented when the qualities men often fear and women often feel reduced to are prioritised, affirmed and nourished. Drawing on Marx and Freud, Cremin demonstrates why there can be no future other than one in which our society is harmonised with the feminine.
Born in New Orleans in 1875 to a mother who was formerly enslaved and a father of questionable identity, Alice Dunbar-Nelson was a pioneering activist, writer, suffragist, and educator. Until now, Dunbar-Nelson has largely been viewed only in relation to her abusive ex-husband, the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. This is the first book-length look at this major figure in Black women’s history, covering her life from the post-reconstruction era through the Harlem Renaissance.
Tara T. Green builds on Black feminist, sexuality, historical and cultural studies to create a literary biography that examines Dunbar-Nelson's life and legacy as a respectable activist – a woman who navigated complex challenges associated with resisting racism and sexism, and who defined her sexual identity and sexual agency within the confines of respectability politics. It’s a book about the past, but it’s also a book about the present that nods to the future.
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