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 62
... writing in this category does not attain this dis- tinction ; with most biographers of women there is an obsessive tendency to reproduce detailed minutiae from the subject's family life and to treat whatever it was that secured her fame ...
... writing in this category does not attain this dis- tinction ; with most biographers of women there is an obsessive tendency to reproduce detailed minutiae from the subject's family life and to treat whatever it was that secured her fame ...
Page 98
... writing about themselves is acknowledged as being as worthy an endeavour as either men writing about men or men writing about women , and men begin not only to read such writing but to treat it seriously , then an important part of my ...
... writing about themselves is acknowledged as being as worthy an endeavour as either men writing about men or men writing about women , and men begin not only to read such writing but to treat it seriously , then an important part of my ...
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... writing about themselves is acknowledged as being as worthy an endeavour as either men writing about men or men writing about women , and men begin not only to read such writing but to treat it seriously , then an important part of my ...
... writing about themselves is acknowledged as being as worthy an endeavour as either men writing about men or men writing about women , and men begin not only to read such writing but to treat it seriously , then an important part of my ...
Contents
Introduction to the New Edition | 1 |
Introduction | 59 |
PART ONE THE NEXUS OF OPPRESSION | 75 |
Copyright | |
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