This week Australian Agricultural Co CEO David Farley compared Prime Minister Julia Gillard to ‘an old cow’.
Celebrating World Breastfeeding Week
It’s World Breastfeeding Week, a time to celebrate breastfeeding and reflect on how far we’ve come, particularly since the early 70’s when many mothers were incorrectly told in hospital that formula was as good as or even superior to their own breast milk
In defence of the feminine
‘‘Do two sexisms make a decency?’’asked author, critic and writer Elizabeth Farrelly in her recent column titled: “The new feminism: if it’s girly, it’s good”
Can men be feminists?
As feminist icon Professor Germaine Greer made headlines today for the wrong reasons the Internet lit up once more with debate about feminism, just who is a feminist, who is not, and what 'feminism' means. (In the words of author Rebecca West, 'I myself have never...
International Women’s Day with Stella.
On International Women’s Day yesterday I took part in a panel at The Carrington in Katoomba to discuss The Stella Prize, women’s writing and the latest statistics on the representation of female authors in the literary world.
The Count Is Out.
The Count’ is out. According to the latest statistics published today by VIDA, in 2011 we again saw a clear gender bias in the literary world – unconscious or otherwise…
Literary Gender Bias. The After-Blog.
It’s true that in every individual circumstance it can be argued that the novel by the male writer is the better one, and it may well be the case that year, or the next, or even the next. But over time, a bias becomes clear.
Are our Sisters In Crime (still) fighting against a male-dominated literary world?
(* This post has been transferred from my old website. Please excuse the formatting.) As mentioned in my last post, this past weekend Sisters in Crime held a rare and wonderful women crime writers' convention in Melbourne, called SheKilda. Why women? Why Sisters In...
Sisters In Crime gather at SheKilda
Sisters in Crime Australia formed 20 years ago, and this past weekend they held SheKilda Women Crime Writers’ Convention in Melbourne.