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 137
... social processes actually at work within it . These processes include not only the maintenance of life , this entailing the constant mainten- ance of ' self ' or personal identity , but also its acquisition . ' Self ' is a social entity ...
... social processes actually at work within it . These processes include not only the maintenance of life , this entailing the constant mainten- ance of ' self ' or personal identity , but also its acquisition . ' Self ' is a social entity ...
Page 212
... social institution - serving definite , prescribed social functions - and people's perception of it as a private world , which needs to be resolved before change is possible . This notion of privacy , and the accompany- ing idea of the ...
... social institution - serving definite , prescribed social functions - and people's perception of it as a private world , which needs to be resolved before change is possible . This notion of privacy , and the accompany- ing idea of the ...
Page 409
... social spheres be more closely intertwined did not entail women abrogating their maternal functions . Although the feminists attacked the idea that women should be defined solely in terms of these functions as this cruelly left the ...
... social spheres be more closely intertwined did not entail women abrogating their maternal functions . Although the feminists attacked the idea that women should be defined solely in terms of these functions as this cruelly left the ...
Contents
Introduction to the New Edition | 1 |
Introduction | 59 |
PART ONE THE NEXUS OF OPPRESSION | 75 |
Copyright | |
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