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 393
... vote simultaneously . This is true of the Federal sphere where all women were enfranchised in 1901 and were able to vote in the first Federal elections of 1903 , but what was considered more import- ant at the time , the right to vote ...
... vote simultaneously . This is true of the Federal sphere where all women were enfranchised in 1901 and were able to vote in the first Federal elections of 1903 , but what was considered more import- ant at the time , the right to vote ...
Page 394
... vote at parliamentary elections . The honourable gentlemen had overlooked the fact that they had given some women the right to vote in municipal elections earlier that year and that the names of women possessing property were on the ...
... vote at parliamentary elections . The honourable gentlemen had overlooked the fact that they had given some women the right to vote in municipal elections earlier that year and that the names of women possessing property were on the ...
Page 406
... vote when every man in the country could vote . While the franchise applied only to propertied men , women could be persuaded that the theory of representation had some merit , but once working - class men obtained suffrage both class ...
... vote when every man in the country could vote . While the franchise applied only to propertied men , women could be persuaded that the theory of representation had some merit , but once working - class men obtained suffrage both class ...
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