• Entry type: Resource
  • Entry ID: AWH004199

Anne Summers interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]

  • Repository National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection
  • Reference ORAL TRC 1/895
  • Date Range 27-Nov-75 - 27-Nov-75
  • Description

    1 sound tape reel (ca. 59 min.) Summers speaks of writing her book “Damned whores and God’s police” ; her reasons for wanting to write it ; her research in women’s oppression and the broad themes used in the historical part of the book ; about how she actually wrote the book. Summers also speaks of her childhood and schooling ; starting the journal “Refractory girl” ; her views on feminism ; her plans for the future.

  • Access Access open for research and personal copies; written permission required for public use during the lifetime of the interviewee.
  • Finding Aid Transcript available (23 p.)

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  • Primary Creator
    • Summers, Anne Fairhurst (1945 - )
    • de Berg, Hazel Estelle (1913 - 1984)
  • See also
    • Refractory Girl (1972 - 1999)