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Women Who Win: Celebrating courage, conviction and change
Journalist and human rights advocate Antoinette Lattouf takes us on a gripping journey through women who defied expectations and shattered cultural and legal barriers — often while being told to calm down.
From Australia’s first female law graduate to Indigenous leaders resisting colonisation, pioneers in sport and science, and the women behind the Jobs for Women and #MeToo movements — some you’ll recognise, others you’ll wish you’d known sooner.
Threaded through is Lattouf’s own story — a searingly honest account of challenging powerful systems and entrenched beliefs. Together, these stories reveal the triumphs and precedents — but also the stumbles and cost of disrupting the status quo.
Women Who Win is a fierce, unflinching celebration of grit, guts, and glorious defiance. These women didn’t just show up — they came to rewrite the rules and never asked for permission.
Less history lesson, more history’s mic drop — and now, the stage is yours.
Armed with the lessons of those who came before us — what fight will you take on? What victories are within your reach today?
From Australia’s first female law graduate to Indigenous leaders resisting colonisation, pioneers in sport and science, and the women behind the Jobs for Women and #MeToo movements — some you’ll recognise, others you’ll wish you’d known sooner.
Threaded through is Lattouf’s own story — a searingly honest account of challenging powerful systems and entrenched beliefs. Together, these stories reveal the triumphs and precedents — but also the stumbles and cost of disrupting the status quo.
Women Who Win is a fierce, unflinching celebration of grit, guts, and glorious defiance. These women didn’t just show up — they came to rewrite the rules and never asked for permission.
Less history lesson, more history’s mic drop — and now, the stage is yours.
Armed with the lessons of those who came before us — what fight will you take on? What victories are within your reach today?
373 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 28, 2026
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May 3, 2026
Ahead of a long weekend on Friday afternoon, I was reading my emails and saw this book mentioned in the Penguin Australia newsletter. Lo and behold, it was available at my local library the next day and now here I am on Sunday having just finished this amazing book.
How funny that appears right when my 11 year old is doing a presentation on women’s rights for his assessment item (he chose women’s rights out of many options 😊. Now I’m going to have to buy this book or maybe ask for it for Mother’s Day next weekend 🤣
“Progress often walks while patriarchy sprints.”
This book goes through the author’s own trial with the ABC which I wasn’t aware of and weaves it through other Australia women’s stories throughout history. There are so many interesting and inspiring chapters. It will definitely need a re-read.
Did you know breaststroke was best choice for women when they started swimming publicly because it was modest?
Or that defamation cases are the biggest in Australia out of any county in the world by a huge percentage.
“Power isn’t gifted it’s constructed brick by brick.”
“Agency isn’t handed down by royal decree. It’s seized.”
Or that most abuse starts online and then spreads elsewhere. There was an example of a public figure being harassed online and the man said he knew where her primary aged daughter went to school and was going to rape her. Turns out it was a police officer and the investigating officers tried to convince her to drop charges.
“We’re not just Criminalising protests were suppressing dissent.” I have seen this more and more in the news lately that Australia has become a pretty harsh police state when it comes to to protestors and Australia leads the world in arresting protestors (climate and environmental mainly.
Those Quaker grannies sound amazing and I will need to read more about them.
But did you know that the military doesn’t count emissions in reporting for environmental concerns??! That’s insane. Look at all the training, drills and WAR worldwide and it doesn’t count??
How funny that appears right when my 11 year old is doing a presentation on women’s rights for his assessment item (he chose women’s rights out of many options 😊. Now I’m going to have to buy this book or maybe ask for it for Mother’s Day next weekend 🤣
“Progress often walks while patriarchy sprints.”
This book goes through the author’s own trial with the ABC which I wasn’t aware of and weaves it through other Australia women’s stories throughout history. There are so many interesting and inspiring chapters. It will definitely need a re-read.
Did you know breaststroke was best choice for women when they started swimming publicly because it was modest?
Or that defamation cases are the biggest in Australia out of any county in the world by a huge percentage.
“Power isn’t gifted it’s constructed brick by brick.”
“Agency isn’t handed down by royal decree. It’s seized.”
Or that most abuse starts online and then spreads elsewhere. There was an example of a public figure being harassed online and the man said he knew where her primary aged daughter went to school and was going to rape her. Turns out it was a police officer and the investigating officers tried to convince her to drop charges.
“We’re not just Criminalising protests were suppressing dissent.” I have seen this more and more in the news lately that Australia has become a pretty harsh police state when it comes to to protestors and Australia leads the world in arresting protestors (climate and environmental mainly.
Those Quaker grannies sound amazing and I will need to read more about them.
But did you know that the military doesn’t count emissions in reporting for environmental concerns??! That’s insane. Look at all the training, drills and WAR worldwide and it doesn’t count??
May 7, 2026
Could not put this down!
I cried, sighed and laughed reading this.
So many incredible, uplifting and powerful stories.
Understanding how resilient and forceful women can be is such a good reminder.
Such an inspiring read! Could not recommend more highly.
I cried, sighed and laughed reading this.
So many incredible, uplifting and powerful stories.
Understanding how resilient and forceful women can be is such a good reminder.
Such an inspiring read! Could not recommend more highly.
May 1, 2026
Devoured this in two sittings. I haven't felt hope in a long time, but this book changed that.
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