Quarterly Essay 50: Unfinished Business: Sex, Freedom and Misogyny

by Anna Goldsworthy

On the surface, it seems the best time ever to be a woman in Australia. The prime minister, governor-general and the richest person are all female; women are at the forefront of almost every area of public life. Yet when Julia Gillard's misogyny speech ricocheted around the world, it clearly touched a nerve. Why?
In the fiftieth Quarterly Essay, Anna Goldsworthy examines life for women after the gains made by feminism. From...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1863956026
• ISBN13: 9781863956024
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Black Inc.
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.7" x 9.6"