Anne Summers
Anne Summers AO is a journalist, commentator, and best-selling author of nine books, including the classic Damned Whores and God’s Police, first published in 1975, and still in print.
BottomAnne Summers AO is a journalist, commentator, and best-selling author of nine books, including the classic Damned Whores and God’s Police, first published in 1975, and still in print.
BottomAnne Summers AO is a journalist, commentator, and best-selling author of nine books, including the classic Damned Whores and God’s Police, first published in 1975, and still in print. Her most recent book Unfettered and Alive, a memoir, was published in 2018. Anne has advised Prime Ministers Bob Hawke and Paul Keating, run the Office of the Status of Women, been editor-in-chief of America’s leading feminist magazine Ms., and editor of Good Weekend. In 2021 Anne was appointed a Paul Ramsay Foundation Fellow, located at UTS, and commissioned to undertake original data-based research that will throw new light on the incidence and nature of domestic violence in Australia. The research will be published this year.
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