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
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
A Letter to Layla - Travels to Our Deep Past and near Future by Ramona Koval
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Category: social issues
How might the origins of our species inform the way we think about our planet? At a point of unparalleled crisis, can human ingenuity save us from ourselves? Much-loved writer and broadcaster Ramona Koval travels the globe in a quest to answer these difficult questions and more. She speaks with an emin ...Show more
Women Don't Owe You Pretty: The record-breaking best-selling book every woman needs by Florence Given
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Category: social issues | Reading Level: very good
Women Don't Owe You Pretty tells you to love sex, hate sexism, protect your goddamn energy, life is short, dump them, and that you owe men nothing, least of all pretty. Florence's debut book explores all progressive corners of the feminist conversation; from insecurity projection and refusing to find co ...Show more
Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
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Category: social issues
An inspirational and practical book written by two high-achieving women, sharing the experience and advice of some of our most extraordinary women leaders, in their own words. From their broad experience on the world stage in politics, economics and global not-for-profits, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Julia ...Show more
On Eating Meat - The truth about its production and the ethics of eating it by Matthew Evans
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Category: social issues | Series: Truth About Production and Should We Eat It? | Reading Level: very good
A scorching manifesto on the ethics of eating meat by the best placed person to write about it - farmer and chef Matthew Evans, aka The Gourmet Farmer. 'Compelling, illuminating and often confronting, On Eating Meat is a brilliant blend of a gastronome's passion with forensic research into the sources o ...Show more
See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Abuse by Jess Hill
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Category: social issues
Winner of the Stella Prize 2020. At the office of Safe Steps, Victoria's dedicated 24/7 family violence response call centre, phone counsellors receive a call every three minutes. Many women are repeat callers- on average, they will go back to an abusive partner eight times before leaving for good. ' ...Show more
Women & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard
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Category: social issues
An updated edition of the Sunday Times Bestseller. Britain's best-known classicist Mary Beard, is also a committed and vocal feminist. With wry wit, she revisits the gender agenda and shows how history has treated powerful women. Her examples range from the classical world to the modern day, from Medus ...Show more
The Case Against Fragrance by Kate Grenville
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Category: social issues
Kate Grenville had always associated perfume with elegance and beauty. Then the headaches started. Like perhaps a quarter of the population, Grenville reacts badly to the artificial fragrances around us: other people's perfumes, and all those scented cosmetics, cleaning products and air fresheners. On a ...Show more
The First Stone: Some Questions About Sex and Power by Helen Garner
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Category: social issues
In the autumn of 1992, two young women students at Melbourne University went to the police claiming that they had been indecently assaulted at a party. The man they accused was the head of their co-ed residential college. The shock of these charges split the community and painfully focused the debate ...Show more