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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... motherhood stakes . Women must have the same freedom to combine various sets of activities that men do and not have their social worth assessed by one suffocating standard . The battle for the educational rights of women did very little ...
... motherhood stakes . Women must have the same freedom to combine various sets of activities that men do and not have their social worth assessed by one suffocating standard . The battle for the educational rights of women did very little ...
Page 336
... motherhood and its rights and marked the acceptance of the elevation of a woman's maternal role to the almost reverential status that it came to have in Australia . The idea that some education was necessary for motherhood was an ...
... motherhood and its rights and marked the acceptance of the elevation of a woman's maternal role to the almost reverential status that it came to have in Australia . The idea that some education was necessary for motherhood was an ...
Page 339
... motherhood as a vocation to devote their entire lives to their families . Motherhood was seen to be an all - consuming vocation , one that could not properly be combined with any other career . The mother was also urged to be ...
... motherhood as a vocation to devote their entire lives to their families . Motherhood was seen to be an all - consuming vocation , one that could not properly be combined with any other career . The mother was also urged to be ...
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