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 322
... Damned Whore as the dominant one . This will be discussed in the next chapter . Before the 1840s however few women escaped the taint of the Damned Whore stereotype . The stigma of the stereotype shackled the female convicts as firmly as ...
... Damned Whore as the dominant one . This will be discussed in the next chapter . Before the 1840s however few women escaped the taint of the Damned Whore stereotype . The stigma of the stereotype shackled the female convicts as firmly as ...
Page 342
... Damned Whore stereotype remaining even after transportation had ceased . This , as we have seen , excluded the women tainted by it from marriage or at least from the respectable status that marriage and family were now intended to ...
... Damned Whore stereotype remaining even after transportation had ceased . This , as we have seen , excluded the women tainted by it from marriage or at least from the respectable status that marriage and family were now intended to ...
Page 359
... Damned Whore stereotype . What she did not see was that the God's Police stereotype was just as much an imposition on women as the one it replaced . - There was an important difference , of course , in that the new stereotype was seen ...
... Damned Whore stereotype . What she did not see was that the God's Police stereotype was just as much an imposition on women as the one it replaced . - There was an important difference , of course , in that the new stereotype was seen ...
Contents
Introduction to the New Edition | 1 |
Introduction | 59 |
PART ONE THE NEXUS OF OPPRESSION | 75 |
Copyright | |
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