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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Page 185
... sexual intercourse . If a girl below this age is discovered to be having sexual relations she is usually confined to a State institution and her male partner is charged with having carnal knowledge and often imprisoned . All societies ...
... sexual intercourse . If a girl below this age is discovered to be having sexual relations she is usually confined to a State institution and her male partner is charged with having carnal knowledge and often imprisoned . All societies ...
Page 188
... 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 222
... 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 inability ...
... 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 inability ...
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