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 70
... society . The manner in which they are upheld even by those who are themselves oppressed and exploited is a measure of the intricate nexus of repression which occurs within capitalism and which prevents the massed opposition to ...
... society . The manner in which they are upheld even by those who are themselves oppressed and exploited is a measure of the intricate nexus of repression which occurs within capitalism and which prevents the massed opposition to ...
Page 228
... society and to the emotional processes which attend it . It has already been stated that the physical separation of ' the family ' from society is one of the definitive characteristics of the bourgeois family . This retreat takes the ...
... society and to the emotional processes which attend it . It has already been stated that the physical separation of ' the family ' from society is one of the definitive characteristics of the bourgeois family . This retreat takes the ...
Page 236
... society through one of its agencies such as the mass media ) . These are all characteristics required by a society which needs to exact loyalty and conformity from its members so that they will perform the tasks which perpetuate that ...
... society through one of its agencies such as the mass media ) . These are all characteristics required by a society which needs to exact loyalty and conformity from its members so that they will perform the tasks which perpetuate that ...
Contents
Introduction to the New Edition | 1 |
Introduction | 59 |
PART ONE THE NEXUS OF OPPRESSION | 75 |
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