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 195
... myths of marriage , myths which are so persuasively propagated that each generation of gullible girls grows up believing that the best thing they can do with their lives . is devote them to marriage and motherhood , and that following ...
... myths of marriage , myths which are so persuasively propagated that each generation of gullible girls grows up believing that the best thing they can do with their lives . is devote them to marriage and motherhood , and that following ...
Page 256
... myths is that all women secretly want to be raped , that women harbour a deep - seated longing to be violently conquered . This myth affirms and reinforces the fundamental sexist dichotomy between women and men which colonization seeks ...
... myths is that all women secretly want to be raped , that women harbour a deep - seated longing to be violently conquered . This myth affirms and reinforces the fundamental sexist dichotomy between women and men which colonization seeks ...
Page 257
... myths , underscoring the wide social recognition they enjoy , but more importantly , lessening and even negating the horror and the terror and the violence and the violation that rape is . Rape jokes are not those ironic devices people ...
... myths , underscoring the wide social recognition they enjoy , but more importantly , lessening and even negating the horror and the terror and the violence and the violation that rape is . Rape jokes are not those ironic devices people ...
Contents
Introduction to the New Edition | 1 |
Introduction | 59 |
PART ONE THE NEXUS OF OPPRESSION | 75 |
Copyright | |
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