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 325
... colony were short - lived . He had hoped to see a society based on the efforts of peasant farmers , independent traders and artisans.45 His policy of promoting the emancipated convicts - by giving them land grants and appointing them to ...
... colony were short - lived . He had hoped to see a society based on the efforts of peasant farmers , independent traders and artisans.45 His policy of promoting the emancipated convicts - by giving them land grants and appointing them to ...
Page 343
... colony that the great need felt in all infant colonies where there was neither convict nor coloured slavery ' and that which leads most of the other wants which then suffer in its train , is the want of labour.'s His solution to this ...
... colony that the great need felt in all infant colonies where there was neither convict nor coloured slavery ' and that which leads most of the other wants which then suffer in its train , is the want of labour.'s His solution to this ...
Page 344
... colony designed to suit the moral , economic , political and religious needs of the rising class of mercantile capitalists . 12 He proposed that , in contrast to the colonies of the eastern states of Australia , land would be sold ...
... colony designed to suit the moral , economic , political and religious needs of the rising class of mercantile capitalists . 12 He proposed that , in contrast to the colonies of the eastern states of Australia , land would be sold ...
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