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Anne Summers: 50 Years of Damned Whores and God’s Police (2nd event)

Feminist icon on 50 years since and 50 years more

Anne Summers
Zora Simic
Wednesday 21 May 2025
2.30-3.30pm
Event Code: 145

This event also takes place on Thursday 22 May, 3–4pm. 

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Anne Summers’s Damned Whores and God’s Police was first published 50 years ago – a time when sexual harassment, domestic violence and date rape were unnamed and often ignored experiences for women in Australia.

It would be another nine years before the introduction of the Sex Discrimination Act 1984.

Join Anne as the bestselling and multi-award-winning writer and journalist – also an Officer of the Order of Australia and inductee to the Australian Media Hall of Fame – reflects on her groundbreaking book, what she has done since and what she is doing now with host Zora Simic.
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State Library of NSW, Library Auditorium
Macquarie Street Wing, Macquarie Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000