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Talking Up: Young Women's Take on Feminism

edited by Rosamund Else-Mitchell & Naomi Flutter

Price: $19.95 (Australian dollars),
$24.95 (NZ dollars),
$14.95 (US dollars),
$22.95 (Canadian dollars),
£10.95 (UK pounds)


  • Talking Up is an exciting collection of writings by young women which proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that feminism is safely in the custody of the next generation and is in very good hands too. Sadly, many of the problems experienced by their mothers, like employment discrimination and sexual harassment, are still with us but these young women are taking on these fights with a fierce intelligence which is both informed by recent feminist history and motivated by a fine sense of justice.

    Anne Summers, 1998

    What drives young women and what drives them mad? Twentysomething women talk about their feminism. What they do, how they do it and why they choose to do it as feminists.

    Exploring a range of personal and political experiences, this collection defines the landscape in which young Australian women stake their claim to feminism.

    The private collides with the public, anger with humour, desire with ideals. Writing themselves into the debate, these young women are Talking Up.

    Covering a diversity of themes including relationships between older and younger women (and feminists), experiences of young migrant women, feminist activism, the marginalisation of non-white and lesbian women, the emerging role of young women in corporate, legal and educational institutions.

    The Editors. Photo by
    Nicki Greenhaigh ©

    Although young women have been publicly silent, they are neither indifferent, nor dispassionate about feminism. This book shows the diversity and depth of young women's ideas.

    What others have said about Talking Up.

    This collection marks a return to passionate feminism. I'd like a pocket version so I can take it to the pub with me - Susie O'Brien, University of Queensland

    Other Reviews of Talking Up

    Talking Up was released in Australia and NZ in November 1998, in the UK in January 1999 and in USA and Canada in March 1999.

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