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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... seen , that same society which fears lesbians also actively prevents them from having these certitudes . At present a woman's homosexuality is seen as sufficient reason to grant her husband a divorce and to take her children away from ...
... seen , that same society which fears lesbians also actively prevents them from having these certitudes . At present a woman's homosexuality is seen as sufficient reason to grant her husband a divorce and to take her children away from ...
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... 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 ...
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... 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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