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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 39
Page 62
... traditional nurturing role and in trying to impose upon this a more egalitarian relationship between men and women . He fails to recognize that what he poses as a solution is in fact the problem for many women , and that his twin ...
... traditional nurturing role and in trying to impose upon this a more egalitarian relationship between men and women . He fails to recognize that what he poses as a solution is in fact the problem for many women , and that his twin ...
Page 411
... traditional division of labour which was the basis of that institution had , at least temporarily , broken down . Women immured themselves from this reality and enhanced their efforts to maintain a semblance of ' the family's ' traditional ...
... traditional division of labour which was the basis of that institution had , at least temporarily , broken down . Women immured themselves from this reality and enhanced their efforts to maintain a semblance of ' the family's ' traditional ...
Page 454
... traditional wife / mother role . That , I have attempted to show , is becoming increasingly difficult , if not totally impossible . While it might still be possible for a woman to be completely happy and fulfilled for the first ten or ...
... traditional wife / mother role . That , I have attempted to show , is becoming increasingly difficult , if not totally impossible . While it might still be possible for a woman to be completely happy and fulfilled for the first ten or ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
able abortion activities attitudes Australian society Australian women Australian Women's Weekly behaviour Caroline Chisholm cent child colony contraceptives culture Damned Whore demands denied dependent Depression division of labour doctors domestic Donald Horne drugs economic ensure equal existence expected Factory female convicts femininity feminism feminists forced fulfilment function girls God's Police role God's Police stereotype Government Humphrey McQueen husband ibid ideology immigrants institution Kylie Tennant large numbers lesbians liberation lives Louisa Lawson majority male marriage married women maternal means Melbourne men's motherhood mothers movement myths Nation Review National numbers of women oppression pension Pill political poverty pregnancy prostitutes Racial Hygiene rape rapist relationship responsibility seen sexist sexual single women social South Australia South Wales status suffrage Sydney totally traditional University Vida Goldstein vote wage wife wives woman women in Australia writing