Summer is fast approaching and what better way to spend your holidays than with a good book?
It is never too late to educate yourself on a new topic. As part of the 16 days of Activism global campaign, Respect Victoria has compiled a list of fiction and non-fiction books that explore gender stereotypes and challenge gender norms to inspire your summer reading list!
Book Recommendations for 16 Days of Activism
- Don’t Fix Women: The practical path to gender equality at work by Joy Burnford (2022)
- On Account of Sex: Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the making of gender equality law by Philippa Strum (2022)
- Welcome to Consent: How to say no, when to say yes and everything in between by Yumi Stynes, Dr Melissa King (2021)
- Alone atop the Hill by Alice Dunnigan
- Attack of the 50 Ft. Women: How Gender Equality Can Save The World! by Catherine Mayer (2017)
- A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Wolfe (1929)
- Bossypants by Tina Fey (2011)
- Brotopia: Breaking up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley by Emily Chang (2018)
- Carrie Pilby by Caren Lissner (2003)
- Dead Beckoning by Christina Engela (2016)
- The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson (2015)
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (1970)
- Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by Bell Hooks (2000)
- Girl Up by Lauren Bates (2016)
- Here Lies Arthur by Philip Reeve (2007)
- Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly (2016)
- I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Upfor Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb (2013)
- Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera (2016)
- Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (1979)
- Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit(2015)
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (2002)
- Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur (2014)
- My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem (2015) Not That Bad by Roxane Gay (2018)
- Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez (2019)
- Pachinko by Min Jin Lee (2017)
- Stealing the Show: How Women Are
- Revolutionizing Television by Joy Press (2018)
- The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson (2015)
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (1970)
- The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai (2018)
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (1985)
- The Help by Kathryn Stockett (2009)
- The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (2003)
- The Surface Breaks by Louise O’Neill (2018)
- The Testaments by Margaret Atwood (2019)
- The Time Has Come: Why Men Must Join the Gender Equality Revolution by Michael Kaufman (2019)
- The Wife Drought by Annabel Crabb (2015)
- We: A Manifesto for Women Everywhere by Gillian Anderson and Jennifer Nadel (2017)
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