Damned Whores and God's Police: The Colonization of Women in AustraliaIdeology of sexism in Australia, the nexus of oppression, sexist stereotypes past and present. |
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... writing , there had been three ways of writing about women . I felt that Australian society and history needed to be subjected to re - analysis in the light of many of the insights and assumptions of the new feminism and so a book ...
... writing , there had been three ways of writing about women . I felt that Australian society and history needed to be subjected to re - analysis in the light of many of the insights and assumptions of the new feminism and so a book ...
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... writing in this category does not attain this dis- tinction ; with most biographers of women there is an obsessive tendency to reproduce detailed minutiae from the subject's family life and to treat whatever it was that secured her fame ...
... writing in this category does not attain this dis- tinction ; with most biographers of women there is an obsessive tendency to reproduce detailed minutiae from the subject's family life and to treat whatever it was that secured her fame ...
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... writing about themselves is acknowledged as being as worthy an endeavour as either men writing about men or men writing about women , and men begin not only to read such writing but to treat it seriously , then an important part of my ...
... writing about themselves is acknowledged as being as worthy an endeavour as either men writing about men or men writing about women , and men begin not only to read such writing but to treat it seriously , then an important part of my ...
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