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Following our series of blog posts from authors around the Balance for Better theme, here’s some further reading perfect for International Women’s Day (or any day) – with a selection of fiction and non-fiction for young and old around redressing the gender balance.

For younger readers…

Fairytales for Feisty Girls by Susannah McFarlane

Reclaiming the word feisty, and redressing the balance of traditional fairytales, Susannah McFarlane has rewritten fairytales to feature girls with smarts who can rescue themselves!

Just watch Rapunzel, Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella and Thumbelina create their own happily ever afters in this beautiful and emboldening bedtime book, a glorious treasury for young girls – and boys.

Our Little Inventor by Sher Rill Ng

As you’ll see from the gorgeous imagery in Sher Rill Ng’s blog post, Our Little Inventor is a gorgeous & inspiring picture book about a young girl, Nell, who invents a machine to fix the pollution that is choking the city.

A wonderful picture book about a girl with a big idea and a determined spirit, and who just needs a little help to make the world a better place for everyone.
Little People, Big Dreams

This is an empowering series that celebrates the important life stories of wonderful women and men around the world. From designers and artists to scientists, all of them went on to achieve incredible things, yet all of them began life as a little child with a dream. These books make the lives of these role models accessible for children, providing a powerful message to inspire the next generation of outstanding people who will change the world!

Have a look at the video below to learn more about the books in the series which they’ve recently balanced up with the addition of books on men, starting with Muhammad Ali and Stephen Hawking.

Memoirs, essays and more…

Choice Words, edited by Louise Swinn

At a time where there is a lack of balance in abortion laws across Australia, and elsewhere around the world, this book is needed now more than ever.  Choice Words is a passionate appeal from writers, thinkers, musicians, actors, comedians, activists and political staffers, offering personal stories of abortion alongside historical records and political anecdotes.

This treasury of stories highlights the sheer, unspoken commonality of abortion. Women have been dealing with the risks and the fall-out for longer than there is record. It is poignant, wise, funny and true; a salute to those who have been working in the field, a celebration of how far we’ve come, an electrifying caterwaul at how far we still have to go, and a clarion call to action.

Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee

Ahead of publishing Eggshell Skull last year Bri Lee wrote about women in the justice system for International Women’s Day, and since then she’s been campaigning to have the laws changed in Queensland, to better protect victims of sexual abuse when taking cases to court.

Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere Jeanette Winterson

One hundred years after women were first granted the vote, award-winning author Jeanette Winterson celebrates how far we have come on the road to equality, and calls on women and men alike to continue the fight.

Winterson examines the current landscape of gender inequality in medicine, education, equal pay, sexual harassment and the #MeToo movement, as well as recent campaigns promoting the equality of women,  and explores what can be learnt from the Suffragette movement a century ago.

Women and Power by Mary Beard

Britain’s best known classicist Mary Beard, is also a committed and vocal feminist. With wry wit she shows in this manifesto how history has treated powerful women. With examples ranging from Medusa and Athena to Theresa May and Elizabeth Warren, Beard explores the cultural underpinnings of misogyny, considering the public voice of women, how we look at women who exercise power, our cultural assumptions about women’s relationship with power, and how powerful women resist being packaged into a male template.

“In tracing the roots of misogyny to Athens and Rome, Mary Beard has produced a modern feminist classic”
The Guardian

Equal Power by Jo Swinson

A practical call to arms that challenges the persistent inequality of power between men and women. Equal Power holds a mirror up to society, laying bare the extent of gender inequality while making the case that everyone has the power to create change.

In this inspiring and essential book, Jo Swinson outlines the steps, small and large, required to achive Balance for Better and make our society truly equal.


 Fight Like A Girl & Boys Will Be Boys by Clementine Ford

Personal and fearless – Clementine Ford’s manifesto is a call to arms for feminists new, old and as yet unrealised to find Balance for Better. Fight Like A Girl will make you laugh, cry and scream. But above all it will make you demand and fight for a world in which women have real equality and not merely the illusion of it.

In her follow-up, Boys Will Be Boys examines what needs to change for that equality to become a reality. It answers the question most asked of Clementine: ‘How do I raise my son to respect women and give them equal space in the world? How do I make sure he’s a supporter and not a perpetrator?’



We’re giving away a stack featuring some of the books listed above, as well as a few others, offering a great selection of women writers (plus some men!). Two runners-up will receive a smaller book stack too!

To enter, just have a read of our blog posts around Balance for Better and fill in the form below telling us which one speaks to you most and why.

Entries close Tuesday 12 March, so plenty of time to enjoy these thought-provoking reads:

Sher Rill Ng on gender stereotypes & imbalances
Phil Barker on why businesses benefit from equality
Mary-Rose MacColl on using fiction to highlight the fight for equality
Susannah McFarlane on the need for balance in storytelling
Emily Brewin on balance and vulnerability.

http://thingsmadefromletters.com/blog/2019/03/08/balance-for-better-an-iwd-reading-list
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