Generation F, Virginia Trioli
Generation F, Virginia Trioli
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Generation F
Why we still struggle with sex and power

Author: Virginia Trioli

Narrator: Virginia Trioli

Unabridged: 5 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/15/2019


Synopsis

‘For me these Ormond College women were, and are, the first voices of the revolution that is #MeToo in Australia.’
 
 
Twenty-five years ago, Australia was in the grip of another debate about sex and power.
 
The Master of Ormond College at the University of Melbourne had been acquitted of indecent assault after complaints by two female students. Helen Garner’s bestselling book about the case, The First Stone, polarised readers over whether the students had been right to take their allegations to the law. Was the feminist movement poisoning gender relations?
 
In Generation F, the young award-winning journalist Virginia Trioli offered a vigorous, incisive and compelling argument for the ongoing need for feminism, while exploring her own bewilderment and anger. She described the real state of sexual harassment, violence, the workplace and the law in Australia: how most women just copped it, but those who felt able to confront it needed all the support they could get.
 
Now – as women around the world speak up about how sexual harassment has destroyed their work, families and lives – Trioli revisits that cultural moment in a new foreword, and in a new afterword considers the situation women face today.
 
Dismayingly, her original text is just as relevant, and her call to action just as powerful.
 

About Virginia Trioli

Virginia Trioli is a journalist, broadcaster and author. She is a two-time Walkley Award-winner and lives in Melbourne with her husband and son.


Reviews

Dearest Virginia Trioli, what a fantastic essay and reflection on our times as we move through the evolution of feminism. I remember reading The First Stone by Helen Garner and for some reason it didn’t leave its mark on me the way did for others. Not sure why... Nonetheless I do remember it and fee......more

Goodreads review by Andrea

This book is an updated version of the text Virginia wrote in the 90s. The original work was a response to Helen Garner's book discussing feminism in light of the Ormond College case, where two young female students accused the Master of indecent assault. With a contemporary forward and conclusion,......more

Goodreads review by Kylie

It's hard when someone you admire lets you down. Not that I think Helen Garner really cares about letting me down, but that was how I felt when I read The First Stone. Like many others I felt she'd missed the point of what the women from Ormond college had done. She'd not acknowledged the difficulty......more