Damned Whores and God's PoliceFeminist perspective first published in 1975 of how Australia's history and culture have limited women's roles in society. A new introduction discusses changes relevant to each original chapter and comments on issues still requiring change. The final chapter of the first edition, an attempt to look into the future, is replaced with an analysis of the women's movement from 1975-93. Summers is a former consultant to Prime Minister Paul Keating's Office for the Status of Women and currently editor of 'Good Weekend' magazine. |
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Page 396
... Louisa Lawson as a social reform club for women . It aimed , in the words of its manifesto , to ' gain the definite sympathy and strength which comes from combination , to afford an understood channel for the expression of opinion and ...
... Louisa Lawson as a social reform club for women . It aimed , in the words of its manifesto , to ' gain the definite sympathy and strength which comes from combination , to afford an understood channel for the expression of opinion and ...
Page 397
... Louisa Lawson when she was asked to write for the Red Page of the Bulletin , not because she had struggled against every possible form of opposition in her attempt to lead an independent and fulfilled existence in her own right , but ...
... Louisa Lawson when she was asked to write for the Red Page of the Bulletin , not because she had struggled against every possible form of opposition in her attempt to lead an independent and fulfilled existence in her own right , but ...
Page 421
... Louisa Lawson's daughter . 10 . For accounts of the harassment Louisa Lawson suffered because of her championship of women workers in the printing trade , see J. Hagan , ' An incident at the Dawn ' , Labour History , no . 8 , May 1965 ...
... Louisa Lawson's daughter . 10 . For accounts of the harassment Louisa Lawson suffered because of her championship of women workers in the printing trade , see J. Hagan , ' An incident at the Dawn ' , Labour History , no . 8 , May 1965 ...
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