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'Ten years on from the speech that stopped us all in our tracks – Julia Gillard's Misogyny Speech. Where were you then? And where are we now?
'Then it was done. After staying silent, I’d had my say. At no time did I feel worked up or hotly angry. I felt strong, measured, controlled. Yet emotion did play its role in the energy of the speech. The frustration that sexism and misogyny could still be so bad in the twenty-first century. The toll of not pointing it out.
'On 9 October 2012, Prime Minister Julia Gillard stood up and proceeded to make all present in Parliament House that day pay attention – and left many of them squirming in their seats. The incisive ‘misogyny speech’, as her words came to be known, challenged not only Leader of the Opposition, Tony Abbott, on his words and actions but, over time, all of us. How had we come to condone the public and private behaviours of some very public men?
'With contributions from Mary Beard, Jess Hill, Jennifer Palmieri, Katharine Murphy and members of the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership, Julia Gillard explores the history and culture of misogyny, tools in the patriarchy’s toolbox, intersectionality, and gender and misogyny in the media and politics.
Kathy Lette looks at how the speech has gained a new life on TikTok, as well as inspiring other tributes and hand-made products, and we hear recollections from Wayne Swan, Anne Summers, Deborah Mailman, Cate Blanchett, Brittany Higgins and more on where they were, and how they first encountered the speech.
'While behaviours may have improved since the misogyny speech, there remains a way to go and Julia Gillard explores the roadmap for the future with next-generation feminists Sally Scales, Chanel Contos and Caitlin Figueiredo to motivate us with that rallying cry: Not now, not ever!
'Proceeds from the book will go to the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership (GIWL).' (Publication summary)
Contents
- The Misogyny Speech, single work essay
- Personal Reflections on the Misogyny Speech, single work essay
- In the Media : Reporting on Gender and the Misogyny Speech, single work essay
- Choirs, TikToks and Tea Towels : How the Misogyny Speech Travelled around the World, single work essay
- The History and Culture of Misogyny, from the Ancient World to Today, single work essay
- Misogyny and Intersectionality, single work essay
- Sexism Today : Tools in the Patriarchy's Toolbox, single work essay
- Misogyny and Violence, single work essay
- Misogyny in Politics : 'There's Just Something about Her', single work essay
- Misogyny in Today's World of Work, single work essay
- What Do Next-Generation Activists Think? In Conversation with Chanel Contos, Caitlin Figeiredo and Sally Scales, Julia Gillard (interviewer), single work interview
- Misogyny : What's Next?, single work essay
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Other Formats
- Sound recording.
Works about this Work
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The Gillard Effect : Creating a More Equitable Society
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , January - February no. 450 2023; (p. 24-25)
— Review of Not Now, Not Ever : Ten Years on from the Misogyny Speech 2022 anthology essay'There is more that connects these two books than their bright pink covers – they both highlight a recasting of the patriarchal architecture of power as central to achieving gender equality. How Many More Women? and Not Now, Not Ever tell an uncomplimentary but complementary story of parliament, the executive, the courts, the media, universities, and business as components of a repressive world ‘tend[ing] to oppress and discriminate against women and girls’, while also enchaining men whose values and norms have moved beyond those of the patriarchy.' (Introduction)
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The Gillard Effect : Creating a More Equitable Society
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , January - February no. 450 2023; (p. 24-25)
— Review of Not Now, Not Ever : Ten Years on from the Misogyny Speech 2022 anthology essay'There is more that connects these two books than their bright pink covers – they both highlight a recasting of the patriarchal architecture of power as central to achieving gender equality. How Many More Women? and Not Now, Not Ever tell an uncomplimentary but complementary story of parliament, the executive, the courts, the media, universities, and business as components of a repressive world ‘tend[ing] to oppress and discriminate against women and girls’, while also enchaining men whose values and norms have moved beyond those of the patriarchy.' (Introduction)