Australian feminist writers

The list Australian feminist writers includes Germaine Greer, Tara Moss, Susan Powter, Gillian Armstrong and Sheila Jeffreys. The list consists of 97 members.

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Germaine Greer

academic writer

Overview: Germaine Greer (born 29 January 1939) is an Australian writer and public intellectual, regarded as one of the major voices of the radical feminist movement in the latter half of the 20th century.

Date of birth: 29 January 1939

Age: 86

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Author

Gender: Female

Height: 6' (183 cm)

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Australian socialist feminists 29T

Critics of Mother Teresa 13T

21st-century Australian non-fiction writers 42T
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Tara Moss

Australian writer

Overview: Tara Moss (born 1973) is a Canadian-Australian author, documentary maker and presenter, journalist, former model and UNICEF national ambassador for child survival.

Date of birth: 2 October 1973

Age: 51

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Female

Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)

Partner: Dr. Berndt Sellheim (Married)

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Models from Sydney 55T

Scarlet Stiletto award winners 4T

Writers from Victoria, British Columbia 66T
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Susan Powter

Australian, Fitness Guru

Overview: Susan Jane Powter (born December 22, 1957) is an Australian-born American motivational speaker, nutritionist, personal trainer, and author, who rose to fame in the 1990s with her catchphrase "Stop the ...

Date of birth: 22 December 1957

Age: 67

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Fitness Guru

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

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21st-century American LGBTQ people 3,075T

Australian LGBTQ actors 43T

Australian lesbian writers 21T
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Gillian Armstrong

Film director

Overview: Gillian May Armstrong (born 18 December 1950) is an Australian feature film and documentary director, who specializes in period drama. Her films often feature female perspectives and protagonists.

Date of birth: 18 December 1950

Age: 74

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Director

Gender: Female

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People educated at Sydney Church of England Girls Grammar School 21T

Women documentary filmmakers 402T

University of Melbourne women 176T
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Sheila Jeffreys

English-Australian activist and author (born 1948)

Overview: Sheila Jeffreys (born 13 May 1948) is a former professor of political science at the University of Melbourne. An English expatriate and lesbian feminist scholar, she analyses the history and politics of ...

Date of birth: 1948

Age: 77

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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English women academics 7T

Australian lesbian writers 18T

British lesbian writers 32T
6.

Elfriede Jelinek

Austrian playwright and novelist

Overview: Elfriede Jelinek (born 20 October 1946) is an Austrian playwright and novelist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004 for her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays ...

Date of birth: 20 October 1946

Age: 78

Nationality: Austrian

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Female

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Jewish Austrian writers 12T

20th-century Austrian dramatists and playwrights 60T

Austrian women dramatists and playwrights 9T
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Clementine Ford

Australian feminist writer, broadcaster and public speaker

Overview: Clementine Ford is an Australian feminist writer, columnist, broadcaster and public speaker on women's rights and other social and political issues.

Date of birth: 30 June 1981

Age: 43

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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Australian anti-Zionists 6T

Australian abortion-rights activists 8T

Activists for Palestinian solidarity 80T
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Stella Young

Australian comedian, journalist and disability advocate (1982–2014)

Overview: Stella Jane Young (24 February 1982 – 6 December 2014) was an Australian comedian, journalist and disability rights activist.

Date of birth: 24 February 1982

Date of death: 6 December 2014

Age: 32 (age at death)

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Comedian

Gender: Female

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Wheelchair users 20T

21st-century Australian journalists 30T

21st-century Australian women writers 240T
9.

Jane Caro

Non-fiction writer

Overview: Catherine Jane Caro AM (born 24 June 1957) is a feminist social commentator, writer and lecturer based in Australia.

Date of birth: 24 June 1957

Age: 67

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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Australian women non-fiction writers 7T

21st-century Australian women writers 289T

20th-century atheists 284T
10.

Rosi Braidotti

Australian feminist

Overview: Rosi Braidotti (born 28 September 1954) is a contemporary philosopher and feminist theoretician.

Date of birth: 28 September 1954

Age: 70

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Philosopher

Gender: Female

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Neo-Spinozism 14T

Spinozists 27T

Lesbian academics 74T
11.

Marie Byles

Twentieth century Australian conservationist and Buddhist

Overview: Marie Beuzeville Byles (8 April 1900 – 21 November 1979) was a committed conservationist, pacifist, the first practising female solicitor in New South Wales (NSW), mountaineer, explorer and avid bushwalker ...

Date of birth: 8 April 1900

Date of death: 21 November 1979

Age: 79 (age at death)

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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20th-century women lawyers 409T

People educated at Pymble Ladies' College 20T

20th-century Australian women writers 366T
12.

Helen Garner

Australian author

Overview: Helen Garner (née Ford, born 1942) is an Australian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. Garner's first novel, Monkey Grip, published in 1977, immediately established her as an ...

Date of birth: 7 November 1942

Age: 82

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Journalist

Gender: Female

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Australian non-fiction crime writers 22T

Grunge lit authors 8T

21st-century Australian women writers 240T
13.

Miles Franklin

Australian writer

Overview: Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin (14 October 1879 – 19 September 1954), known as Miles Franklin, was an Australian writer and feminist who is best known for her novel My Brilliant Career, published ...

Date of birth: 14 October 1879

Date of death: 19 September 1954

Age: 74 (age at death)

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service 45T

19th-century Australian women 435T

20th-century Australian women writers 366T
14.

Kylie Sturgess

Educator, skeptic, podcaster

Overview: Kylie Sturgess is a past President of the Atheist Foundation of Australia, an award-winning blogger, author and independent podcast host of The Token Skeptic Podcast. A Philosophy and Religious Education ...

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Writer

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Australian women bloggers 20T

Australian women podcasters 10T

Australian sceptics 20T
15.

Aileen Moreton-Robinson

Overview: Aileen Moreton-Robinson (born 1 September 1956) is an Australian academic, indigenous feminist, author and activist for indigenous rights. She is an Aboriginal woman of the Goenpul tribe, part of the ...

Date of birth: 1 September 1956

Age: 68

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Sociologist

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Holly Lawford-Smith

Australian, Activist

Overview: Holly Lawford-Smith is a researcher, author and Associate Professor in Political Philosophy, University of Melbourne.

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Activist

Gender: Female

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Australian women's rights activists 98T

Activists from Melbourne 102T

Academic staff of the University of Melbourne 460T
17.

Moira Rayner

Australian-based human rights barrister (born 1948)

Overview: Moira Emilie Rayner (née Stockwell, born November 10, 1948), is a New Zealand-born, Australian-based barrister and human rights advocate. She was the first Commissioner for Equal Opportunity appointed ...

Date of birth: 10 November 1948

Age: 76

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Barrister

Gender: Female

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Morgan Bell

Author

Overview: Morgan Leigh Bell (born 1981) is an Australian writer of short stories, who grew up in Newcastle, New South Wales, and currently resides in Port Stephens. Bell is the author of short story collection ...

Date of birth: 1981

Age: 44

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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Australian women short story writers 94T

Asexual women 14T

Atheist feminists 100T
19.

Eva Johnson

playwright

Overview: Eva Knowles Johnson (born 1946) is an Aboriginal Australian poet, actor, director and playwright.

Date of birth: 1946

Age: 79

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Activist

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Women human rights activists 491T

Indigenous Australian feminists 4T

Australian indigenous rights activists 149T
20.

Dorothy Lee (theologian)

Australian theologian

Overview: Dorothy Ann Lee (born 1953) is an Australian theologian and Anglican priest, formerly dean of the Trinity College Theological School, Melbourne, a college of the University of Divinity, and continuing ...

Date of birth: 1953

Age: 72

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Religion

Gender: Female

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University of Divinity faculty 5T

Christian feminist biblical scholars 14T

Female biblical scholars 60T