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Maggie's book, What's Happening To Our Girls?, examines why, in a few short years, our girls have become vulnerable - not just teen girls, but also young girls and baby girls. They are being forced to grow up faster than ever before.
What a twelve-year-old girl experienced at seven is not what a seven-year-old girl is now struggling with. Many of the guidelines we offer girls no longer apply, or are contradicted by messages from media and advertising telling girls how to look, think, behave and feel.
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Over two years Maggie Hamilton interviewed girls, teachers, school counsellors, psychologists, and law enforcement and medical personnel to get an insider's view on what girls are experiencing at present, from birth to the teenage years. Informed, revealing, compassionate and at times shocking, What's Happening to Our Girls? is a book for parents and all those who want to better understand and support girls.
Maggie Hamilton’s working life has encompassed the public and private sectors, and includes senior roles in book publishing and with the ABC. In her book Love Your Work, Maggie presents a philosophy of work that meets the challenges of increasing workloads, shrinking resources, retrenchment and takeovers, inspiring us to reclaim our lives within and beyond work. |
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Her professional commitments have included serving on the executive committee of the Sydney Peace Foundation and as member of the organising committee for the Federation Australian Women’s History Project, the Office for the Status of Women, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.
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In amongst her work commitments, Maggie continues to take time to travel out to deserts and to other far-flung parts of the planet. She shares all she has learned there in Coming Home and in Magic of the Moment, and reveals more in her book A Soft Place to Land. In Maggie’s book on men, What Men Don’t Talk About And Why, she takes readers into the world of real men and boys and how they see their world.
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Maggie has published a number of books including Coming Home: Rediscovering Our Sacred Selves, Love Your Work, Reclaim Your Life and Magic of the Moment for adults.
Passionate also about giving children as rich a childhood she has written a number of books for children, and still presents to children and young adults when she can.
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Her books for kids include Mister Eternity (inspired by Sydney’s own Mr Eternity Arthur Stace), The Lost Kingdom of Lantia, My Secret Diary, Magic Tricks, and Very Tricky. Maggie has also self-published Over the Hills and Far Away - an account of her father’s childhood in Scotland during the Depression, and has also contributed to a number of works including The Road to Camelot and 30 Australian Stories for Children. Her books Magic Tricks and Very Tricky are also available as audio books.
Find out more about Maggie on her website, or by calling us.
Maggie's recent books are published by Penguin.
A dynamic and engaging speaker. Maggie was passionate about the findings of her research, particularly the need to give girls an internal life and recognise their unique qualities as individuals and their real and potential contribution to our society. It has made me very conscious of the deleterious effects of popular culture. I will be placing a much sharper focus on the power of the media in shaping popular culture in my teaching.
– Member of staff, Birrong Girls High School, 2008
Apart from being able to deliver an excellent speech on different
topics, Maggie is also very innovative and can read an audience pretty
quickly, adapting to their mood. She handles questions with aplomb and is never lost for words, an enviable trait.
– ABC Enterprises
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