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The books Goodreads users read more often than are assigned in university tend to be by women writers and to feature strong female protagonists.
Our experts cast their eyes over this list of contemporary fiction, historical fiction, and non-fiction which undertakes impressive trapeze acts across genre boundaries.
Written in 1929, this short, passionate book highlighting the silencing of women’s voices continues to shape our culture.
In the project Erasing Frankenstein, students, educators and incarcerated women collaborated to created an erasure poem of Mary Shelley’s classic text, and publicly showcase their work.
Debut memoir The Erratics possesses a rare honesty, exploding socially sanctioned ideas about mothers and families.
The six books shortlisted for this year’s Stella prize cover diverse subject matter and make risky aesthetic choices; they are serious and thoroughly unsentimental.
A Stella winner is a book that challenges its readers; it attempts to do a bit of work in the world. And this year’s shortlist doesn’t disappoint.
Compared to the male-dominated STEM disciplines and social sciences like philosophy and political science, Australian history has been remarkably feminised. Indeed there may be more women historians here than in the UK or US.
Clementine Ford’s Fight Like a Girl is the latest in a new wave of feminist memoirs. These frank, fearless books reveal the hostility and deep discomfort women’s ever-strengthening public voice has provoked.
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EG Whitlam Research Fellow at the Whitlam Institute, and Associate Professor, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies, Monash University
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Lecturer in History, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor, Writing and Publishing, School of Media & Communication, RMIT University
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Professor of English Literature, University of Southern Queensland
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Emeritus Professor, Creative Industries, CQUniversity Australia
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Associate professor, University of New Brunswick
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Senior Lecturer, Writing and Literature, Swinburne University of Technology
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Associate Professor of English, University of Calgary
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Discipline Leader—English and Creative Writing, University of Wollongong
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Adjunct academic in Creative Writing and English, Flinders University
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Graduate researcher, English & Creative Writing, La Trobe University
