‘This book helps parents understand how we can win back girlhood – happy, wild and free. It’s the core of individuality and self-belief – and is the new feminism that we want for our daughters’ Globally renown psychologist and author Steve Biddulph has been a remarkable support for our movement Collective Shout since the earliest […]
The exceptional Australian author, journalist, literary critic and essayist Antonella Gambotto-Burke, is on the verge of releasing her latest book Mama: Dispatches from the Frontline of Love. When I first began reading Antonella’s books and essays (in Vogue, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Rolling Stone and elsewhere), I was taken aback by the quality and eloquence of […]
Girls’ anxieties turn to healthy anger when they see they are part of a wider cause, writes Steve Biddulph. This year, on a multi-country speaking tour for my new book Raising Girls, I talked to thousands of parents of girls. It was an eye-opening experience. For 25 years I’d worked primarily on the challenges of boys. The […]
After writing the multi-million best-selling Raising Boys in 2003, psychologist Steve Biddulph thought his life work was done. But the parenting guru and father of two kept hearing sad stories of friend’s daughters and coming into contact with parents in despair about how unhappy their girls were. They were plagued by eating disorders, self-harm, and […]
Another Collective Shout victory Racing Queensland has assured Collective Shout that the Gold Coast Turf Club’s plans to race 150 women – described as ‘fillies and mares’ – in bikinis from barrier stalls December 4, will not go ahead. I wrote about the Club’s plan to parade women like animals Wednesday. Collective Shout covered it […]
