Anne Summers

Anne Summers

Summers delivering the Griffith Lecture, 2018
Summers delivering the Griffith Lecture, 2018
BornAnn Fairhurst Cooper
(1945-03-12) 12 March 1945 (age 79)
Deniliquin, New South Wales, Australia
OccupationJournalist, writer and feminist
GenreNonfiction; memoir
SubjectFeminism; gender equity; women in history; misogyny
Notable worksDamned whores and God's police; The misogyny factor; Unfettered and Alive: A Memoir

Anne Summers AO (born 12 March 1945) is an Australian writer and columnist, best known as a leading feminist,[1] editor and publisher. She was formerly First Assistant Secretary of the Office of the Status of Women in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Her contributions are also noted in The Australian Media Hall of Fame biographical entry

  1. ^ Henderson, Margaret (2006), Marking feminist times : remembering the longest revolution in Australia, Peter Lang, ISBN 978-0-8204-8038-1