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SOCIAL SCIENCE
192 Pages, 5.25 x 8.25
Formats: Trade Paper, PDF, EPUB
Trade Paper, $19.99 (US $19.99) (CA $21.99)
Publication Date: July 2013
ISBN 9781742233840
Rights: WOR X UK, EUR, AU, NZ & ZA
University of New South Wales Press (Jul 2013)
NewSouth
This provocative examination by a media-savvy writer who remains at the forefront of the political debate surrounding gender equality explores why equality between men and women has failed to be achieved in Australia. In 2012, Anne Summers gave two landmark speeches about women in Australia, attracting more than 120,000 visits to her website. Within weeks thereafter, Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s own speech about misogyny and sexism went viral and was celebrated around the world. However, Summers makes the case that Australians are still uncomfortable with the idea of women with political and financial power, let alone the reality, and she dismisses the idea that progress for women—as opposed to outright success—should be celebrated. She then offers an idea of what truly successful gender equality should look like.
Anne Summers is a writer, a journalist, and the author of Damned Whores and God’s Police, The Lost Mother, and On Luck. She writes for a number of publications, including the Sydney Morning Herald, the Age, and the Australian Financial Review. She has worked as a senior bureaucrat and political adviser, is the editor of the digital magazine Anne Summers Reports, and is the former editor in chief of the landmark feminist New York–based Ms. magazine.
