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 97
... demands made by children , visitors and husband each time the poet / housewife takes up her pen to write.30 Charmian ... demands of motherhood , a woman is also a wife , and especially if her husband is involved in his own creative work ...
... demands made by children , visitors and husband each time the poet / housewife takes up her pen to write.30 Charmian ... demands of motherhood , a woman is also a wife , and especially if her husband is involved in his own creative work ...
Page 218
... demands prompted women to begin consciously and critically to examine the roles patriarchal society expected them to fulfil , and to conclude that they were unjust . Soon the demands swelled to the right to vote in order to be able to ...
... demands prompted women to begin consciously and critically to examine the roles patriarchal society expected them to fulfil , and to conclude that they were unjust . Soon the demands swelled to the right to vote in order to be able to ...
Page 399
... demands . The meticulously literal way in which one man one vote was interpreted by the labour movement exemplified the contempt in which the women's demand was held . The principles of equality and justice were not apparently seen to ...
... demands . The meticulously literal way in which one man one vote was interpreted by the labour movement exemplified the contempt in which the women's demand was held . The principles of equality and justice were not apparently seen to ...
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