Book 7: Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg - 220 pages

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Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In is a massive cultural phenomenon and its title has become an instant catchphrase for empowering women. The book soared to the top of bestseller lists internationally, igniting global conversations ( Read more... )

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Book 11: Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism by Natasha Walter - 263 pages

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Empowerment, liberation, choice. Once the watchwords of feminism, these terms have now been co-opted by a society that sells women an airbrushed, highly sexualised and increasingly narrow vision of femininity. While the opportunities ( Read more... )

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9 EMPRESS DOWAGER CIXI: THE CONCUBINE WHO LAUNCHED MODERN CHINA Jung Chang (China, 2013)


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Book 6: The XX Factor: How Working Women Are Creating a New Society by Alison Wolf - 401 pages

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For most of history, being female defined the limits of a woman's achievements. But now, women are successful careerists equal to men. In Norway, women legally must constitute a third of all boards; in America, ( Read more... )

Book 35: Singled Out: How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After by Bella DePaulo, PH.D. - 308 pages

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Drawing from decades of scientific research and stacks of stories from the front lines of singlehood, Bella DePaulo debunks the myths of singledom---and shows ( Read more... )

Book 25: My Point…and I Do Have One by Ellen DeGeneres - 211 pages

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In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Ellen DeGeneres shares her hilarious take on everything from our most baffling human foibles-including how we behave in elevators, airplanes, and restrooms, and why we're so scared of the boogeyman-to ( Read more... )

It’s only taken me a year to finish writing up my 2013 book reviews (and with nearly 30 2014 book reviews to write in the next month), but alas I am here. So what happened in 2013? I got promoted to manager at work; I travelled to Hawaii and went on a cruise to far-north Queensland, as well as visiting the most northern point in Australia for work ( Read more... )

Book 7: How To Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran - 301 pages

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Caitlin Moran is the profane, witty and wonky best friend I wish I had. Shes the feminist rock star we need right now. Ayelet Waldman, author of Bad Mother ‘Caitlin Moran is so fabulous, so funny, so freshly feminist. I dont want to be like her I want ( Read more... )

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14 A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN Virginia Woolf (England 1929)


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