Inconvenient Women, 9781742237503
Paperback
Forgotten feminists who dared to change Australia’s world, one word at a time.

Inconvenient Women

australian radical writers 19001970

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  • Paperback

    320 pages

  • Release Date

    30 April 2025

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Summary

Australia’s crusaders for women’s voting rights and the radical feminists of the 1970s changed lives across the country and around the globe. But what about the generation in between?

Throughout the twentieth century, a group of trailblazing women writers challenged the nation’s status quo. Miles Franklin’s forceful voice invigorated the emerging women’s movement, Mary Gilmore was a groundbreaking feminist journalist, and novelists Katharine Susannah Prichard and Eleanor Dark explored…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781742237503
ISBN-10:1742237509
Author:Jacqueline Kent
Publisher:NewSouth Publishing
Imprint:NewSouth Publishing
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:320
Release Date:30 April 2025
Weight:404g
Dimensions:87mm x 318mm x 66mm
About The Author

Jacqueline Kent

Jacqueline Kent is a Sydney-based writer of non-fiction and biography, as well as young adult fiction, general articles and literary journalism. Her working background includes radio interviewing, print journalism, radio and TV scriptwriting, editing books, ghost- writing, teaching editing and creative writing, and arts administration. She is the author of A Certain Style, the National Biography Award-winning biography of acclaimed book editor Beatrice Davis, as well as An Exacting Heart, the story of pianist and social activist Hephzibah Menuhin, and The Making of Julia Gillard, the only full biography of Australia’s first woman prime minister. Her most recent book is Bonjour, Mademoiselle! (with Tom Roberts), the biography of trans pioneer April Ashley. She holds a Doctorate of Creative Arts from UTS, Sydney.

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