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 17
... traditional nuclear families . Yet the political rhetoric of the time proceeded from the assumption . that most people did live within this traditional structure or if they didn't , they should . Not only was this kind of hectoring ...
... traditional nuclear families . Yet the political rhetoric of the time proceeded from the assumption . that most people did live within this traditional structure or if they didn't , they should . Not only was this kind of hectoring ...
Page 459
... traditional division of labour which was the basis of that institution had , at least temporarily , broken down . Women immured themselves from this reality and enhanced their efforts to maintain a semblance of ' the family's ' traditional ...
... traditional division of labour which was the basis of that institution had , at least temporarily , broken down . Women immured themselves from this reality and enhanced their efforts to maintain a semblance of ' the family's ' traditional ...
Page 509
... traditional wife / mother 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 ...
... traditional wife / mother 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 ...
Contents
Introduction to the New Edition | 1 |
Introduction | 59 |
PART ONE THE NEXUS OF OPPRESSION | 75 |
Copyright | |
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