Damned Whores and God's Police: The Colonization of Women in AustraliaIdeology of sexism in Australia, the nexus of oppression, sexist stereotypes past and present. |
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The Colonization of Women in Australia Anne Summers. The Pill : the new oppressor The Pill is posed as a panacea to all women's worries about unwanted pregnancies : the daily swallowing of a tiny tablet will ensure that fertility can be ...
The Colonization of Women in Australia Anne Summers. The Pill : the new oppressor The Pill is posed as a panacea to all women's worries about unwanted pregnancies : the daily swallowing of a tiny tablet will ensure that fertility can be ...
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... Pill and about doctors who prescribe it I have sought . - My generation , aged thirty in 1975 , has had the Pill since we were eighteen . We have had twelve years of trying it . Most of us grew up thinking ' the Pill ' was synonymous ...
... Pill and about doctors who prescribe it I have sought . - My generation , aged thirty in 1975 , has had the Pill since we were eighteen . We have had twelve years of trying it . Most of us grew up thinking ' the Pill ' was synonymous ...
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... Pill supposedly holds out to women is that , at last , free from worrying about whether each sexual encounter could produce a pregnancy , they will be able to relax and enjoy sex . What is offered with one hand , however , is cruelly ...
... Pill supposedly holds out to women is that , at last , free from worrying about whether each sexual encounter could produce a pregnancy , they will be able to relax and enjoy sex . What is offered with one hand , however , is cruelly ...
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