Leslie Cannold (born in Port Chester, NY) is an Australian philosopher, ethicist, educationalist, writer, activist, and public intellectual.
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Education and career
editBorn and raised in Armonk and Scarsdale, New York, Leslie Cannold migrated to Melbourne in her early twenties.[1] She began writing for The Age as an opinion and education section columnist while raising young children and completing her graduate degrees.
Educated at Wesleyan University, where she studied psychology and theatre, she has a Master of Arts and a Masters in Bioethics from Monash University. She earned her PhD in Education at the University of Melbourne before commencing employment at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics when C. A. J. Coady was director.[2] As of 2011[update] she maintains adjunct positions at both universities though she left academic employment in 2006 to pursue writing and public speaking full-time.[citation needed]
Cannold is noted as one of Australia's leading public thinkers and women.[3] In 2005, she was named alongside Peter Singer, Gustav Nossal, and Inga Clendinnen as one of Australia's top 20 public intellectuals.[4] In 2013, she was named in the Power Index's Top Ten List of most influential brains.[5]
Books and columns
editCannold's devil's advocate column "Both Sides Now" began appearing weekly in Crikey at the start of 2021.[6] Her fortnightly Moral Dilemma column[7] appeared in Sydney's Sunday Sun-Herald from 2007 to 2013. Prior to that, she was an occasional columnist for The Age. Her opinions have also appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald, Crikey!, The Herald Sun, ABC The Drum Unleashed, The Courier Mail, and the national broadsheet The Australian. In 2011, she was recognised with an EVA for a Sunday Age opinion piece on sexual assault.[8]
Her books include the award-winning[9] The Abortion Myth: Feminism morality and the hard choices women make[10][11] and What, No Baby?: Why women are losing the freedom to mother and how they can get it back,[12] which made the Australian Financial Review's top 101 books list.[1] Her first work of fiction, The Book of Rachael,[13] a historical novel, was published in 2011 and reprinted in 2012. She publishes on diverse subject areas, including grief, circumcision, HIV/AIDS, genetic manipulation, ex utero gestation, and regulating Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs). She published chapters in Sperm Wars[14] (2005) and The Australian Book of Atheism (2010),[15] and Destroying the joint (2013).[16]
Radio and television work
editCannold's radio and TV appearances include ABC Radio National, triple j, Today Tonight, The 7:30 Report, A Current Affair, The Catch-Up, The Einstein Factor, SBS Insight, 9am with David & Kim, The Circle, Today, ABC News Breakfast, News 24,[17] and Lateline.
For many years, she talked life, work, and ethics with well-known radio and TV broadcaster Virginia Trioli on 774 ABC Melbourne, and was heard regularly on Radio 4BC and Deborah Cameron's morning show on 702 ABC Sydney. As of 2013[update], she talks ethics with Angela Owen on ABC Central West, and is a regular panellist on ABC TV's political talk show Q&A[1] and on ABC TV's Compass.[18]
Activism
editCannold is past president of Reproductive Choice Australia,[19] a national coalition of pro-choice organisations that played a key role in removing the ban on the abortion drug RU486 in 2006, and of Pro Choice Victoria, which was instrumental in the decriminalisation of abortion in Victoria in 2008.[20] In 2011, she co-founded the not-for-profit speaker referral site No Chicks No Excuses.[21] Leslie Cannold was awarded 2011 Australian Humanist of the Year in recognition of her valuable contribution to public debate on a wide range of ethical issues, of particular relevance to women and family life.[22] Her TEDx talk on abortion has had close to 60,000 views,[23] and in 2016, she spoke to around 6,000 activists from 169 countries[24] at the International Women Deliver conference in Copenhagen about abortion stigma.
Personal life
editCannold identifies herself as a secular Jew.[25] She has two sons.[26]
References
edit- ^ a b c "Panellist: Dr. Leslie Cannold". Q&A. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 27 July 2013.
- ^ "Leslie Cannold". Archived from the original on 25 September 2010.
- ^ The Australian [dead link]
- ^ "Brain power". 18 April 2005.
- ^ "Thinkers - Leslie Cannold". Archived from the original on 11 November 2014. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
- ^ "Leslie Cannold". Crikey. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
- ^ "Leslie Cannold – National Times". Retrieved 7 April 2011.
- ^ "Safe and Equal | Standing strong against family violence". Safe and Equal.
- ^ "Award Winning Wesleyan Books". Archived from the original on 31 May 2010.
- ^ Cannold, Leslie (1998). The Abortion Myth: Feminism morality and the hard choices women make. St. Leonards, N.S.W: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 1-86448-522-1.
- ^ Cannold, Leslie (2000). The Abortion Myth: Feminism morality and the hard choices women make. Hanover, N.S.W: University Press of England. ISBN 0-8195-6377-3.
- ^ Cannold, Leslie (2005). What, no baby? : why women are losing the freedom to mother, and how they can get it back. Fremantle, W.A: Fremantle Arts Centre Press in partnership with Curtin University of Technology. ISBN 1-920731-88-1.
- ^ Cannold, Leslie (2011). The Book of Rachael. Melbourne, VIC: Text Publishing Company. ISBN 978-1-921758-08-9.
- ^ Cannold, Leslie (2005). "'Walking wallets and one-stop sperm shops': How men fear that women see them in the postmodern reproductive age". In Jones, Heather-Grace.; Kirkman, Maggie (eds.). Sperm wars : the rights and wrongs of reproduction. Sydney: ABC Books for the ABC Broadcasting Corporation. ISBN 0-7333-1542-9.
- ^ "The Australian Book of Atheism". Archived from the original on 13 December 2010.
- ^ Cannold, Leslie (2013). "Destroying the joint starts at home". In Caro, Jane (ed.). Destroying the joint. St Lucia, Queensland, Australia: University of Queensland Press. pp. 35–44. ISBN 9780702249907.
- ^ "Silicon Valley egg plan no revolution: Ethicist", ABC News, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 16 October 2014, retrieved 9 December 2015
- ^ "Leslie Cannold: Ethicist and writer". Compass. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 9 December 2015.
- ^ "Leslie Cannold | TEDxCanberra". tedxcanberra.org. Archived from the original on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
- ^ "It's about choice : the Victorian abortion law reform story (Video) – Women's Health Hub". www.womenshealthhub.awhn.org.au.
- ^ "No Chicks, No Excuses". Radio Adelaide. Adelaide. 16 February 2011. Archived from the original on 22 April 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2011.
- ^ "Australian Humanists of the Year". www.hsnsw.asn.au.
- ^ "LESLIE CANNOLD — Debates & Ideas". 8 March 2016.
- ^ "About". Retrieved 6 May 2023.
- ^ Cannold, Leslie (10 April 1999). "The First Cut". Cannold.com. Retrieved 7 April 2011.
- ^ Sullivan, Jane (2 April 2011). "Resurrecting the lost sister". The Age. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 7 April 2011.