Cash Flow: The Businesses of Menstruation, by UK-based academic Dr Camilla Mørk Røstvik, delves into how much we know about the menstrual industry - its surprisingly patriarchal business model, how...
Category: Book
The childhood trauma that devastated my friend, Kate
This is an edited extract from Jo Dyer’s Burning Down the House: Reconstructing Modern Politics, released this month as part of Monash University Publishing’s In the National Interest series. In...
Banishing body shame: ‘Ladies, We Need To Talk’
'Ladies, We Need To Talk' (the book) breaks the stigma around everything women are thinking but not saying. Author and presenter Yumi Stynes and health reporter and digital editor Claudine Ryan...
The Super Woman Myth: Can we have it all?
One of the challenges of being a woman in the modern world is that no matter how far we’ve come in equality, in a heterosexual relationship women still, generally, bear the burden of the ‘mental...
Review: Rape culture and silencing survivors
Content notification: This post contains discussion of rape culture, sexual assault and silencing victims. I’m back again to review two more books from the In the National Interest series – the...
When misogynist cyberhate turns you into international news
QAnon is a far-right conspiracy movement, which revolves around false claims made by anonymous individuals, much of it online. In this edited excerpt of her new book ‘QAnon and On’ Van Badham...
1960s women: beyond sex, drugs, rock n’ roll
Female baby boomers came of age in the 1960s and 1970s and changed the world forever. It wasn’t just about hippies, flower power, anti-war demonstrations, sex, drugs and rock and roll. Even more...
Will the Australia of tomorrow be more equal?
The future lives of women have changed drastically. As a growing number of women agitate for change, this new book, edited by Jamila Rizvi and Helen McCabe, contends it is time to demand what women...
The age old profession where women reign
'The Psychic Tests: An Adventure into the World of Believers and Sceptics' is a new book by award-winning journalist, Gary Nunn. He investigates psychics, mediums and astrologers to understand their...