Ducks on the Pond: An Autobiography 1945-1976Ducks on the Pondis the unflinching personal story of Anne Summers, a woman who challenged the world she was given. Hers was a long journey through unfamiliar cities and a succession of low-paid typically female jobs before she emerged as a founding member of the Women's Liberation Movement, award-winning journalist and ultimately a key adviser to prime ministers Bob Hawke and Paul Keating. Her bookDamned Whores and God's Policewritten before she was 30, became a publishing sensation and helped change the way Australians, and especially women, see themselves. Anne Summers' story encompasses the conformity and repression of the 1950s, the political radicalism and rock music of the 1960s, and the sexual revolution, women's liberation and the Whitlam phenomenon of the 1970s. Written with wit and wry humour,Ducks on the Pondis a story of success and fulfilment achieved against considerable odds. |
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Page 115
... sexual conduct in the late 1990s . It was one of the most pleasing legacies of almost three decades of change for women that such sexual behaviour is no longer the norm . Which is not to say it does not exist but it seemed to us that ...
... sexual conduct in the late 1990s . It was one of the most pleasing legacies of almost three decades of change for women that such sexual behaviour is no longer the norm . Which is not to say it does not exist but it seemed to us that ...
Page 127
... sexually transmitted diseases such as AIDS cast a pall over sexual activity . They were confusing times , and while we were not the first generation of girls to succumb to sexual temptation ( our mothers , for instance , kept very quiet ...
... sexually transmitted diseases such as AIDS cast a pall over sexual activity . They were confusing times , and while we were not the first generation of girls to succumb to sexual temptation ( our mothers , for instance , kept very quiet ...
Page 438
... sexual abuse 130-3 see also date rape ; rape sexual mores 114-15 , 117 , 127 , 133-8 , 256 , 286 , 291 , 292-3 , 302-3 , 304 , 357 EMD and carnal knowledge 321 sex education 130 sexual revolution 127 , 177 and the Push 117 , 296 , 301-3 ...
... sexual abuse 130-3 see also date rape ; rape sexual mores 114-15 , 117 , 127 , 133-8 , 256 , 286 , 291 , 292-3 , 302-3 , 304 , 357 EMD and carnal knowledge 321 sex education 130 sexual revolution 127 , 177 and the Push 117 , 296 , 301-3 ...
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