ANZ women’s stories

Stories from women in Australia and New Zealand

Updated February 27, 2023
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Fight like a girl
Ford, Clementine
Paper Book
  'This rallying cry will persuade you to battle for true equality' Stylist An incendiary debut taking the world by storm, Fight Like A Girl is an essential manifesto for feminists new, old and soon-to-be.
The female eunuch
Greer, Germaine
Paper Book
"Like a woman, this book gets better with age. Greer's punchy prose and all-too-true observations motivate you to go out and do something to liberate yourself-and other women."  -- Leora Tanenbaum, author of Slut! Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation A ground...
Boys will be boys
Ford, Clementine
Paper Book
  'The most important thing you'll read this year' Elle  The incendiary new book about toxic masculinity and misogyny from Clementine Ford, author of the bestselling feminist manifesto, Fight Like A Girl. Boys Will Be Boys answers the question Clementine Ford is...
The first stone : some questions about sex and power
Garner, Helen
Paper Book
An investigative journalist offers an account of an Australian sexual harassment case in which two female students filed police charges against a college official, who was found innocent of the charges but terminated from his position.
True spirit : the true story of a 16-year-old Australian who sailed solo, nonstop, and unassisted around the world
Watson, Jessica
Paper Book
*Now a Netflix film* The inspiring true story of Jessica Watson--an Australian teenager who set out to sail solo around the world! On May 15, 2010, after 210 days at sea and more than 22,000 nautical miles, 16-year-old Jessica Watson sailed her 33-foot boat triumphantly back to...
Unbreakable
Dokic, Jelena
Paper Book
This is a story of Jelena Dokic's survival. How she survived as a refugee, twice. How she survived on the tennis court to become world No. 4. But, most importantly, how she survived her father, Damir Dokic, the tennis dad from hell. Jelena was a prodigious talent, heralded as...
Daughters of Durga: Dowries, Gender Violence and Family in Australia
O'Connor, Manjula Datta.
Paper Book
Women of the Bible focuses on fifty-two remarkable women in Scripture -- women whose struggles to live with faith and courage are not unlike our own. Far from being cardboard characters, these women encourage us through their failures as well as their successes. You'll see how God acted in...
Evonne Goolagong
S©?nchez Vegara, Ma Isabel
Paper Book
My brilliant career ; My career goes bung
Franklin, Miles
Paper Book
Miles Franklin's classic of 1901 follows the unconventional life and struggles of one of Australia's most memorable female characters. Sybylla's passion and rebellion bring her no end of trouble, in life and in love. Included in this edition is the sequel, My Career Goes Bung.
Radio girl : the story of the extraordinary Mrs Mac, pioneering engineer and wartime legend
Dufty, David F.
Paper Book
All around Australia, former WRANs and navy men regard the woman they know as Mrs Mac with a level of reverence usually reserved for saints. Yet today no-one has any idea of who she was and how she rescued Australia's communication systems in World War II.

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