Books Archives : Alexandra Spring

‘Growing wave of feminist energy’: Julia Gillard on Clinton, Ardern and #MeToo

Alexandra Spring — Sat, 05 May 2018 22:18:34 +0000

Former Australian PM discusses the role of gender in leadership at Sydney writers’ festival Julia Gillard has called for the #MeToo movement to broaden out to include ordinary women who face sexual abuse, exploitation and harassment in the workplace. The former Australian prime minister praised the movement for its energy, activism and the way it is bringing […]

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An Evening with Germaine Greer review – hour-long ramble misses the #MeToo moment

Alexandra Spring — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 21:24:53 +0000

A timely keynote from one of the world’s leading feminists promised much but delivered little It was the night after the women of Hollywood declared “time’s up” in a globally televised event. The night after the BBC was taken to taskabout pay inequality. The night after another alleged serial sexual predator was unmasked in Australia. Germaine Greer was delivering a […]

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A Fashionable Read: Louis Vuitton

Alexandra Spring — Sat, 05 May 2012 07:27:50 +0000

Oh, the delicious irony of history. In March this year, the Louis Vuitton Marc Jacobs exhibition opened at Paris’s Les Arts Décoratifs, formerly part of Palais du Louvre, a mere five-minute walk from rue Saint-Honoré where, in 1837, a 16-year-old Louis Vuitton began his apprenticeship with Romain Maréchal, a master trunk maker and packer. He […]

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