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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... seen as necessary that each family have its own house and land , that rooms be allocated for specific purposes , that they be separated from each other by corridors , that special quarters be built to accommodate servants . This retreat ...
... seen as necessary that each family have its own house and land , that rooms be allocated for specific purposes , that they be separated from each other by corridors , that special quarters be built to accommodate servants . This retreat ...
Page 322
... seen as worthy women . They were whores , not wives . At the end of the transportation period in New South Wales the rate of marriage began to increase . Between 1841 and 1846 the ratio of married to unmarried increased by 3.3 per cent ...
... seen as worthy women . They were whores , not wives . At the end of the transportation period in New South Wales the rate of marriage began to increase . Between 1841 and 1846 the ratio of married to unmarried increased by 3.3 per cent ...
Page 342
... seen , excluded the women tainted by it from marriage or at least from the respectable status that marriage and family were now intended to bestow . The position of women was the key to family development . The bourgeois family required ...
... seen , excluded the women tainted by it from marriage or at least from the respectable status that marriage and family were now intended to bestow . The position of women was the key to family development . The bourgeois family required ...
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