24:(born 1947) is an Australian novelist, playwright, essayist, poet, and reviewer. Her topics include women and writing, switching between reality and fiction, with themes of subversion and survival. Moorhead participates in the
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Moorhead and her three siblings were brought up by her single mother. She went to boarding school before deciding to study law at the
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Moorhead has supported the women's liberation movement since the 1970s, and during the 1980s, she identified with radical feminism.
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