Margaret Whitlam [Hardcover] Mitchell Susan

Susan Mitchell's biography captures Margaret Whitlam — the woman who redefined what it meant to be an Australian Prime Minister's wife. While Gough Whitlam shook up Canberra in the 1970s, Margaret was doing her own thing: speaking her mind, championing women's rights, and refusing to play the demure political spouse. She was wickedly funny, fiercely intelligent, and completely uninterested in pretense. Mitchell draws on extensive interviews to reveal a woman who was both ahead of her time and deeply of it — navigating the spotlight with grace and irreverence in equal measure. This is Australian political history told through the lens of a woman who never asked for permission to be herself. Essential reading for anyone interested in the Whitlam era, feminism in Australian politics, or simply a damn good biography of a formidable woman.