If you enjoy bursting into rage induced flame, but in pocket sized installments and with a glimmer of hope at the end, you can’t go past Kate Fitz-Gibbon’s Our National Shame: Violence Against...
Category: Power
Gender lens: BroadAgenda Research Wrap
BroadAgenda Research Wrap is your monthly window into academia. We scour the journals so you don’t have to. No topic too impenetrable, no research too eclectic; BroadAgenda Research Wrap brings you...
Diverse women fronting veterans’ peace movement
When she joined Veterans For Peace in 2015 it didn’t take Army veteran Monisha Ríos long to learn that there is a status hierarchy among vets—even those working for peace and justice. On meeting...
Review: ABC TV’s Ms Represented
“100 years of ‘firsts’: The story of women in Australian parliaments started with a blunder from an inept man with a not-quite-so-ingenious plan.” Ebenezer Ward, an anti-women’s rights politician...
Joan’s story: Power triumphing over reason
The Vetting of Wisdom is the gripping true story of revered Principal Joan Montgomery —acclaimed nationwide as the leading girls’ school educator of her day—being assailed by a Presbyterian Church...