Witness

People. Politics. Culture. Feminism. 1975-2025

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

440 kr

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Anne Summers – trailblazing feminist, journalist, commentator and author – has often been the nation’s conscience with her insightful and powerful writing on the past 50 years of Australian and American society and politics. In Witness, an illuminating first-ever collection of Summers’ reportage, essays, interviews and articles, we meet Cate Blanchett and Robert Caro, Germaine Greer and Monica Lewinsky, Faith Bandler and Rosie Batty. Summers revisits the vindictive politics of the Julia Gillard era, the unexpected legacy of Malcolm Fraser and the way John Howard upended the agenda for women’s equality. She explores the Mexican patron saint of drug runners, the terrorist bombing of an Ariana Grande concert and the women who marched against rape in war on ANZAC Day. And she reflects on the death of her mother, finally providing a headstone for a violent grandfather, sharing her name with a chain of sex shops and why she couldn’t throw out her swinging '60s wedding dress. In a collection as varied and deeply considered as her own life, Summers tells the stories of the people, issues and moments that have shaped our past and are key to understanding today’s tumultuous world.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-12-01
Mått:153 x 230 x undefined mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:448
Förlag:NewSouth Publishing
ISBN:9781742238258

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Anne Summers AO attended the University of Adelaide before moving to Sydney, where she became active in the women’s movement and began her writing career. In 1975, after the publication of Damned Whores and God’s Police, she joined The National Times as a feature writer. In 1979 she was appointed political correspondent for the Australian Financial Review. During her five years in the Canberra Press Gallery she was also Canberra correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review and Australian correspondent for Le Monde. In 1983 she was appointed to head the Office of the Status of Women. She rejoined the Australian Financial Review in 1986 as US editor, and was also the North American manager for John Fairfax Ltd. From 1987 to 1989 she was editor-in-chief of Ms. magazine and co-owner of Matilda Publications Inc., which owned Ms. and Sassy magazines. She returned to Australia in 1992 to become a political consultant to Prime Minister Paul Keating, a position she held until just after the 1993 federal election. From 1993 to 1997 she was editor of Good Weekend magazine. She is the author of eight books, including Gamble for Power, Ducks on the Pond, The End of Equality, The Misogyny Factor and Unfettered and Alive. She is Professor at the UTS Business School, where she continues her research on domestic and family violence.