Modern Australian

Anne Summers' new memoir and the bitter struggle over memory narratives of feminism

  • Written by Camilla Nelson, Associate Professor in Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
Anne Summers' new memoir and the bitter struggle over memory narratives of feminismAnne Summers photographed in 2013 with Julia Gillard.Dan Himbrechts/AAP

Review: Unfettered and Alive by Anne Summers (Allen and Unwin)


Years ago, when I was young, I lived in an apartment in Sydney’s Potts Point that looked straight down into Anne Summers’ house. Summers had recently published her “Letter to the Next...