Women in Politics

An intimate and deeply researched account of the extraordinary rise and political brilliance of the most powerful - and elusive - woman in the world....

I was prime minister for three years and three days. Three years and three days of resilience. Three years and three days of changing the nation....

Now revised and updated with a new foreword by Annabel Crabb, from one of our foremost journalists and political commentators, Julia Baird, comes a powerful insight into how the media treats female politicians....

In Sex, Lies and Question Time, former MP Kate Ellis looks at what it is really like to be a woman in Australian politics today....

Angela Merkel is a German politician best known as the first female chancellor of Germany and one of the architects of the European Union....

If your funny older sister were the former deputy chief of staff to President Barack Obama, her behind-the-scenes political memoir would look something like this....

In 1986, 26-year-old Ruth Coker Burks visits a friend in hospital when she notices that the door to one of the patient's rooms is painted red....

The Education of an Idealist traces Power’s extraordinary journey, from Irish immigrant to human rights activist to United States Ambassador to the United Nations....

Climate Justice is an urgent call to arms by one of the most important voices in the international fight against climate change, sharing inspiring stories and offering vital lessons for the path forward....

Katie Hopkins' hilarious and revealing book Rude is part memoir, part handbook for the modern woman....

Sarah Huckabee Sanders served as White House press secretary for President Donald J. Trump from 2017 to 2019. A trusted confidante of the president, Sanders advised him on everything from press and communications strategy to personnel and policy....

Distinguished diplomat Ambassador Wendy Sherman brings listeners inside the negotiating room to teach how to put diplomatic values like courage, power, and persistence to work in their own lives....

Women Who Don’t Wait in Line is an urgent wake-up call from politico and activist Reshma Saujani....

From Rebecca Traister, the New York Times best-selling author of All the Single Ladies, comes a vital, incisive exploration into the transformative power of female anger and its ability to transcend into a political movement....

In 2012, Beck Dorey-Stein was just scraping by in Washington, DC, when a posting on Craigslist landed her, improbably, in the Oval Office as one of Barack Obama's stenographers....

In Essay 63, with characteristic wit and acuity, Don Watson takes us on a journey into the heart of the United States in the year 2016....

This riveting biography of Germaine Greer traces the personal and political history of one of the most important, radical, and controversial women of 20th and 21st century feminism.... 

This engaging memoir, originally published 1970, relates Ida B. Wells’ private life as a mother as well as her public activities as a teacher, lecturer, and journalist in her fight for equality and justice....

Lauren Boebert is the gun-toting Republican Congresswoman from Rifle, Colorado. My American Life describes in vivid detail why Lauren dropped out of high school, the success of Shooters Grill, and how she came to be a United States Congresswoman....

The inspiring, influential senator and best-selling author mixes vivid personal stories with a passionate plea for political transformation....

Drawing on Black intellectual and grassroots organizing traditions, including the Haitian Revolution, Unapologetic challenges all of us engaged in the social justice struggle to make the movement for Black liberation more radical, more queer, and more feminist....