Affirmative action: much more than a slap on the wrist". The Canberra Times. Vol.58, no.17, 682. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 26 February 1984. p.9 (Sunday Edition) . Retrieved 12 October 2018– via National Library of Australia. But it remains difficult for women to have their voices heard. Women in Australia who have spoken up on #MeToo are almost immediately threatened with defamation action – and some of them are being sued. Women of all ages still name family and domestic violence, workplace sexual harassment and street violence and harassment close to the top of their list of concerns. a b "Khemlani story Walkley winner". The Canberra Times. Vol.51, no.14, 515. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 21 October 1976. p.22 . Retrieved 12 October 2018– via National Library of Australia.

Chip Rolley - PEN America". pen.org. Archived from the original on 23 April 2018 . Retrieved 1 November 2018. Summers was appointed a political adviser to Labor prime minister Bob Hawke, heading the Office of the Status of Women in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet from late 1983 to early 1986. [15] [16] [17] [18] From 1986 to 1992, Summers lived in New York, [19] becoming editor-in-chief of Ms. magazine, [20] [21] and, following a management buyout, co-owned the magazine, which eventually succumbed to a Moral Majority campaign and went bankrupt. [4] She then returned to Australia and was appointed editor of the "Good Weekend" magazine, in The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. [4] [22] [23] [24] She was also an advisor on women’s issues to Labor prime minister Paul Keating prior to the 1993 federal election. [25] Summers joined the board of Greenpeace Australia in 1999 and from 2000 to 2006 was chair of Greenpeace International. [4] [26] [27] Since 2017, she once again lives in New York. [26] Awards [ edit ] If you have a non-Buy Now Pay Later balance on your Littlewoods account, you will still need to make at least Together with groundbreaking women’s histories – Beverly Kingston’s My Wife, My Daughter and Poor Mary-Ann (1975), Miriam Dixson’s The Real Matilda (1976), Edna Ryan and Ann Conlon’s Gentle Invaders (1975) – Summers’ book lay the groundwork for women’s history in Australia.Summers, Anne (18 August 2017). "From my wedding dress to a childhood coat, history is sewn into our clothes". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 24 March 2018 . Retrieved 11 October 2018. Moving to Sydney in 1970, Summers and other WLM members squatted in two derelict houses owned by the Anglican Diocese of Sydney, turning them into the Elsie Women's Refuge to provide shelter to women and children who were victims of domestic violence. [4] [9] [10] Summers, Anne (2009). The lost mother: a story of art and love. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. Women who do not conform to certain gender ideologies fare badly in Summers’ book. Stay-at-home mums are berated for pushing baby buggies, young women are berated for “baking and doing craftwork”. Women’s history, feminist history and gender history have been the most dynamic and productive fields of Australian historical inquiry ever since. Feminist history since 1975

In December 1969, Summers left her marriage and in 1969 became one of a group of five women to form a Women's Liberation Movement (WLM) group in Adelaide. [6] [7] Other Women's Liberation Movement groups were being established around Australia: an equal pay submission in the name of the movements was submitted to the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission in Melbourne in 1969, [8] and a WLM meeting was held in Sydney in January 1970. The group held their first national conference in May 1970, at the University of Melbourne, with 70 feminists attending. [4] Henderson, Margaret (2006), Marking feminist times: remembering the longest revolution in Australia, Peter Lang, ISBN 978-0-8204-8038-1 Elsie: A women's shelter". Tribune. No.1846. New South Wales, Australia. 26 March 1974. p.7 . Retrieved 12 October 2018– via National Library of Australia. Honour for acclaimed author and alumna Anne Summers". The University of Sydney. Archived from the original on 24 July 2017 . Retrieved 11 October 2018.

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PM: Sex Discrimination Bill would be best achievement". The Canberra Times. Vol.58, no.17, 691. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 6 March 1984. p.15 . Retrieved 12 October 2018– via National Library of Australia.

Steinem: Will allow feminist cross-fertilisation Fairfax owners, editor revitalise 'Ms' magazine". The Canberra Times. Vol.62, no.19, 103. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 24 January 1988. p.2 . Retrieved 12 October 2018– via National Library of Australia. Summers, Anne (2003). The end of equality: work, babies and women's choices in 21st century Australia. Sydney: Random House. In the decades following, Australian universities began teaching women’s studies and women’s history courses. Feminist historians undertook rigorous, adventurous work, seeking out new ways to recover the lives and experiences of women in the past.McGrath, Ann. “Labour History.” Labour History, no. 73, 1997, pp. 236–238. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/27516514. Summers put the entire staff on 60 days’ probation and fired three. But later in the chapter she adds: “I … should have cleared out the whole place.”

THE QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY 1989 HONOURS". Commonwealth of Australia Gazette. Special. No.S192. Australia. 12 June 1989. p.2 . Retrieved 12 October 2018– via National Library of Australia. Born Ann Fairhurst Cooper in Deniliquin, New South Wales in 1945, the oldest of the six children of AHF and EF Cooper, [2] Summers grew up in a strict Catholic household in Adelaide, South Australia, and was educated at a Catholic school in Adelaide. [3] In her autobiography, she writes that her father (an aviation instructor) was an alcoholic and that she had a difficult relationship with her mother. [4] Yet most welcomed her book and recognised its achievement. Ann-Mari Jordens, writing in the journal Labour History in 1975, argued that:Convicts in New Holland (c. 1789-94), by Alessandro Malaspina. Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, CC BY a b "About | Anne Summers". www.annesummers.com.au. Archived from the original on 8 September 2018 . Retrieved 11 October 2018. Journalist for PM's department". The Canberra Times. Vol.58, no.17, 559. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 26 October 1983. p.3 . Retrieved 12 October 2018– via National Library of Australia. FIVE STARS CLUB". Southern Cross. Vol.LXIV, no.3220. South Australia. 6 June 1952. p.13 . Retrieved 12 October 2018– via National Library of Australia. The costs for delivery, installation services and any warranty and insurance products cannot be placed on Buy