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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Anne Summers. 5. THE REPRESSION OF SEXUALITY The repression of sexuality is one of the most important functions of ' the ... sexual expression than was previously the case . The very words reveal the authoritarian nature of the situation ...
Anne Summers. 5. THE REPRESSION OF SEXUALITY The repression of sexuality is one of the most important functions of ' the ... sexual expression than was previously the case . The very words reveal the authoritarian nature of the situation ...
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... sexual repression . It is she who will explicitly instruct and restrict , who will urge her children away from sexual games and punish them for ' playing with themselves ' . As part of what she sees as her maternal duties of ensuring ...
... sexual repression . It is she who will explicitly instruct and restrict , who will urge her children away from sexual games and punish them for ' playing with themselves ' . As part of what she sees as her maternal duties of ensuring ...
Page 268
... sexual performance . . . It could well be that the ' over- sexed ' woman is actually exhibiting a normal sexuality . . .21 She hypothesizes about : ... the existence of the universally and physically normal condition of women's ...
... sexual performance . . . It could well be that the ' over- sexed ' woman is actually exhibiting a normal sexuality . . .21 She hypothesizes about : ... the existence of the universally and physically normal condition of women's ...
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