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 37
... wanted to write about an individual woman she had to be somehow separated from the norm ; she had , for instance , as in Prichard's Coonardoo , to be black . Nor was it easy for a woman writer who wanted to try and depict with some ...
... wanted to write about an individual woman she had to be somehow separated from the norm ; she had , for instance , as in Prichard's Coonardoo , to be black . Nor was it easy for a woman writer who wanted to try and depict with some ...
Page 299
... wanted single men ' with no encumbrances ' , whereas the religious and other reformers wanted to import young married couples and suitably chaperoned single women . The latter's views were shared by the Government to the extent that ...
... wanted single men ' with no encumbrances ' , whereas the religious and other reformers wanted to import young married couples and suitably chaperoned single women . The latter's views were shared by the Government to the extent that ...
Page 301
... wanted the employment she found for the women to be temporary . What she wanted was for them to become wives and mothers , and she went to great lengths to encourage marriage between single women and respectable settlers . She described ...
... wanted the employment she found for the women to be temporary . What she wanted was for them to become wives and mothers , and she went to great lengths to encourage marriage between single women and respectable settlers . She described ...
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