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'This is the exhilarating story of Anne Summers' extraordinary career as a journalist, author, policy maker, political advisor, bureaucrat, board member, editor, publisher and political activist. Her story as she travels around the world moving from job to job, in newspapers and magazines, advising prime ministers, leading feminists debates, presiding over Greenpeace International, writing memorable and influential books. Anne has not been afraid to walk away from success and to satisfy her constant restlessness by charging down new and risky paths. Whatever position she has held, she has expanded what's possible and helped us see things differently.
'Anne shares revealing stories about the famous and powerful people she has worked with or reported on. And is refreshingly frank about her own anxieties and mistakes as well as her, at times, heart-breaking family story of violence and ultimate reconciliation. Unfettered and Alive is a provocative and inspiring memoir by a woman who broke through so many boundaries to show what women can do.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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Three Lively Feminist Lives
2020
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— Appears in: Lilith , January no. 26 2020; (p. 239-246)
— Review of Germaine : The Life of Germaine Greer 2018 single work biography ; Winning for Women : A Personal Story 2019 single work autobiography ; Unfettered and Alive : A Memoir 2018 single work autobiography 'These three books chronicle the lives of Australian feminists Germaine Greer, Iola Mathews and Anne Summers. By way of brief introduction: Summers is one of Australia’s best-known feminists. She was part of the collective that founded Elsie, the first women’s refuge in Australia, and in 1975 she authored the Australian feminist classic Damned Whores and God’s Police.Summers also worked as a journalist in Australia and internationally, and as a political advisor at the highest level of government to improve the lives of Australian women. Unfettered and Alive is the second volume of her autobiography, which begins in 1976 where her first, Ducks on the Pond (1999), ends. Iola Mathews started her career as a journalist at The Age and was one of the founding members of the Women’s Electoral Lobby (WEL), an organisation that sought reform of party politics along feminist lines. She also worked at the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) where she pursued equal pay and paid parental leave. Germaine Greer wrote what is sometimes called ‘the classic text of the [women’s] movement’ The Female Eunuch (1970) and is a global celebrity, thinker and provocateur.' (Introduction) -
Unfinished Business : The Lives of Two Influential Feminists
2018
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— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December no. 407 2018; (p. 12-13)'When Anne Summers first met Germaine Greer at a raucous house party in Balmain in the early 1970s, she threw up in front of her after too many glasses of Jim Beam. Almost fifty years later, she muses that perhaps that early encounter was one of the reasons why they ‘never really connected’. After reading Summers’ latest memoir, Unfettered and Alive, in tandem with Elizabeth Kleinhenz’s Germaine: The life of Germaine Greer, I can think of a few others.' (Introduction)
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Anne Summers’ New Memoir and the Bitter Struggle Over Memory Narratives of Feminism
2018
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— Appears in: The Conversation , 2 November 2018;'Years ago, when I was young, I lived in an apartment in Sydney’s Potts Point that looked straight down into Anne Summers’ house. Summers had recently published her “Letter to the Next Generation” – and it’s likely that any discomfort not arising from the strange proximity of our urban views was directly attributable to this.' (Publication summary)
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Three Lively Feminist Lives
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Lilith , January no. 26 2020; (p. 239-246)
— Review of Germaine : The Life of Germaine Greer 2018 single work biography ; Winning for Women : A Personal Story 2019 single work autobiography ; Unfettered and Alive : A Memoir 2018 single work autobiography 'These three books chronicle the lives of Australian feminists Germaine Greer, Iola Mathews and Anne Summers. By way of brief introduction: Summers is one of Australia’s best-known feminists. She was part of the collective that founded Elsie, the first women’s refuge in Australia, and in 1975 she authored the Australian feminist classic Damned Whores and God’s Police.Summers also worked as a journalist in Australia and internationally, and as a political advisor at the highest level of government to improve the lives of Australian women. Unfettered and Alive is the second volume of her autobiography, which begins in 1976 where her first, Ducks on the Pond (1999), ends. Iola Mathews started her career as a journalist at The Age and was one of the founding members of the Women’s Electoral Lobby (WEL), an organisation that sought reform of party politics along feminist lines. She also worked at the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) where she pursued equal pay and paid parental leave. Germaine Greer wrote what is sometimes called ‘the classic text of the [women’s] movement’ The Female Eunuch (1970) and is a global celebrity, thinker and provocateur.' (Introduction) -
Anne Summers’ New Memoir and the Bitter Struggle Over Memory Narratives of Feminism
2018
single work
column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 2 November 2018;'Years ago, when I was young, I lived in an apartment in Sydney’s Potts Point that looked straight down into Anne Summers’ house. Summers had recently published her “Letter to the Next Generation” – and it’s likely that any discomfort not arising from the strange proximity of our urban views was directly attributable to this.' (Publication summary)
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Unfinished Business : The Lives of Two Influential Feminists
2018
single work
column
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December no. 407 2018; (p. 12-13)'When Anne Summers first met Germaine Greer at a raucous house party in Balmain in the early 1970s, she threw up in front of her after too many glasses of Jim Beam. Almost fifty years later, she muses that perhaps that early encounter was one of the reasons why they ‘never really connected’. After reading Summers’ latest memoir, Unfettered and Alive, in tandem with Elizabeth Kleinhenz’s Germaine: The life of Germaine Greer, I can think of a few others.' (Introduction)
