Beatrice Faust was the transformative feminist activist, writer and intellectual who founded the Women’s Electoral Lobby in Melbourne in 1972. She campaigned for abortion law reform, and thought, talked and wrote about sex and feminism.

She also endured a miserable childhood, and suffered chronic ill health as well as a later-life addiction to prescription drugs. Her letters reveal a complex, troubled inner life that belied the confident charisma of her public persona.

In this fascinating episode of Gleetalks award-winning biographer Judith Brett talks to ABC political correspondent and presenter Annabel Crabb about this gifted, argumentative woman who refused to be a victim, in her book The Fearless Beatrice Faust: Sex Feminism and the Body Politic,  published by Text Publishing.

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