Ducks on the Pond
by Anne Summers
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Ducks on the Pondis the unflinching personal story of Anne Summers, a woman who challenged the world she was given. Hers was a long journey through unfamiliar cities and a succession of low-paid typically female jobs before she emerged as a founding member of the Women's Liberation Movement, award-winning journalist and ultimately a key adviser to prime ministers Bob Hawke and Paul Keating. Her bookDamned Whores and God's Policewritten before she was 30, became a publishing sensation and show more helped change the way Australians, and especially women, see themselves. Anne Summers' story encompasses the conformity and repression of the 1950s, the political radicalism and rock music of the 1960s, and the sexual revolution, women's liberation and the Whitlam phenomenon of the 1970s. Written with wit and wry humour,Ducks on the Pondis a story of success and fulfilment achieved against considerable odds. show lessTags
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Common Knowledge
- Important places
- Australia
- Dedication
- To my brothers David Cooper Tony Cooper Greg Cooper & Paul Cooper Some of this story is also theirs And in memory of our beloved youngest brother Jamie Patrick Cooper 1959-1976
- First words
- The only blight on my early years was the arrival of my brother David when I was almost two.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)That it might be the first of many little ducks sailing confidently onto the great pond of Australian life, part of it all now, finally and about time.
- Original language
- English
Classifications
- Genres
- Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, Sexuality and Gender Studies, General Nonfiction, History
- DDC/MDS
- 305.42 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social group - Age, Gender, Ethnicity Women Social role and status of women
- LCC
- HQ1822.5 .S85 .S855 — Social sciences The family. Marriage, Women and Sexuality The Family. Marriage. Women Women. Feminism
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- Reviews
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- Rating
- (4.50)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 2
