biography
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Summers, Anne (Fairhurst)
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| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1945– )
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| biography:
| Academic, journalist, and bureaucrat, born in Deniliquin, New South Wales, SE Australia. She studied at the universities of Adelaide, Sydney, and New South Wales. Her influential book Damned Whores and God's Police (1975) was an important and groundbreaking study of the role of women in Australian history. She worked as a journalist for various newspapers, then became a ‘femocrat’ (1983–6) as head of the Office of the Status of Women in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. She returned to journalism in 1986, becoming the US correspondent and North American manager for John Fairfax newspapers. In 1987 she became editor-in-chief of the influential American feminist magazine Ms, and was its editor-at-large (1990–2). She was adviser on women's affairs to Prime Minister Paul Keating in 1992, returning again to journalism as editor of the Sydney Morning Herald and (until 1997) The Age's colour supplement. |
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