Felicity Neale

The two essays making up this small Dorothy L. Sayers book are a sizzling takedown of the ridiculous notions of what ‘womanhood’ should be.

‘Brazen Hussies’ shows the birth of Australian women’s rights in the 1970s. Women have a raging bushfire of purpose and resolve.

The citizen-female experience has never been especially solicited during data-gathering, or later disaggregated from the data pool — because it has never even been suspected as differing to the male experience. That’s hardly fit ideology for the 21st century, argues Caroline Criado Perez in her new book, ‘Invisible Women’.

It’s a classic tale of villains, victims, and heroes. Greedy bankers, brainwashed salespeople, exploited innocents, and a brave few who broke away to flip the Monopoly board off the table. Banking Bad is the eloquently relayed story of Adele Ferguson’s work to expose systematic malfeasance and moral and legal corruption within Australia’s banks and insurers, which resulted directly in the Hayne Royal Commission.