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 72
... role a revered status . This status is largely a sham since it is superficial and is by no means an adequate com- pensation for the demands of the role . But most women have accepted it for it has enabled them to attach value to an ...
... role a revered status . This status is largely a sham since it is superficial and is by no means an adequate com- pensation for the demands of the role . But most women have accepted it for it has enabled them to attach value to an ...
Page 229
... role has increased the more the role of family in individual self - realization is stressed , and so women have had to shoulder additional burdens for ever diminishing rewards since women now bear fewer children and , in terms of the ...
... role has increased the more the role of family in individual self - realization is stressed , and so women have had to shoulder additional burdens for ever diminishing rewards since women now bear fewer children and , in terms of the ...
Page 509
... role . That , I have attempted to show , is becoming increasingly difficult , if not totally impossible . While it might still be possible for a woman to be completely happy and fulfilled for the first ten or even twenty years of ...
... role . That , I have attempted to show , is becoming increasingly difficult , if not totally impossible . While it might still be possible for a woman to be completely happy and fulfilled for the first ten or even twenty years of ...
Contents
Introduction to the New Edition | 1 |
Introduction | 59 |
PART ONE THE NEXUS OF OPPRESSION | 75 |
Copyright | |
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