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Prima Facie reading list

Want to learn more about the issues and ideas that Prima Facie presents? Check out these reading suggestions from our friends at Melbourne bookstore Readings.

How Many More Women? 

Accessible writing by Jennifer Robinson and Keina Yoshida – whip-smart, internationally acclaimed lawyers who expose antiquated laws affecting women across the Western world today, including a wave of defamation cases against women speaking up in response to #MeToo. 

Not Now, Not Ever 

Ten years on from her renowned ‘misogyny speech’, in Not Now, Not Ever Julia Gillard joins with other prominent feminists to examine the history of misogyny in Australia and explore a roadmap for a better future. 

Fix the System, Not the Women 

Fix the System, Not the Women is a pragmatic overview of the impact gendered violence has on our society and what we can all do about it, from Everyday Sexism Project founder, feminist writer and activist Laura Bates.  

Sheilas: Badass Women of Australian History 
We all need more role models that we can relate to and that embolden us – and there’s no shortage of them in Australia’s past or in Eliza Reilly’s Sheilas: Badass Women of Australian History

On Reckoning

In On Reckoning, Guardian political reporter Amy Remeikis shares her personal and professional rage at the failure of political leaders to deal with the issue of sexual assault, offering an insider’s perspective on parliament during one of the most confronting public conversations of recent times. 

Quarterly Essay 84: The Reckoning - How #MeToo is Changing Australia 

Did everything change in Australia with the #MeToo movement? In Quarterly Essay 84: The Reckoning, Jess Hill brings her characteristic insight and engaging rigour to the #MeToo movement and its outcomes. 

The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner 
Want to know what happens if you won’t be silenced? The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner is the story, in her own words, of one of the most powerful public figures of our time, Grace Tame. 

See What You Made Me Do 

Jess Hill’s Stella Prize-winning See What You Made Me Do offers unforgettable analysis and a radical approach to how we should think about and respond to the national crisis of violence against women. 

Published on 1 February 2023

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