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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... young women are confronting a different set of pressures from those their mothers experienced . They are growing up in a distressingly confusing world to which they are reacting in almost inexplicably self- destructive ways . There ...
... young women are confronting a different set of pressures from those their mothers experienced . They are growing up in a distressingly confusing world to which they are reacting in almost inexplicably self- destructive ways . There ...
Page 505
... young adulthood , would stand alongside us and keep the movement , and the fight , alive . So I was at first horrified , and then mortified , to encounter during the 1980s young women who regarded we feminists of the 1960s and 1970s as ...
... young adulthood , would stand alongside us and keep the movement , and the fight , alive . So I was at first horrified , and then mortified , to encounter during the 1980s young women who regarded we feminists of the 1960s and 1970s as ...
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... young adulthood , would stand alongside us and keep the movement , and the fight , alive . So I was at first horrified , and then mortified , to encounter during the 1980s young women who regarded we feminists of the 1960s and 1970s as ...
... young adulthood , would stand alongside us and keep the movement , and the fight , alive . So I was at first horrified , and then mortified , to encounter during the 1980s young women who regarded we feminists of the 1960s and 1970s as ...
Contents
Introduction to the New Edition | 1 |
Introduction | 59 |
PART ONE THE NEXUS OF OPPRESSION | 75 |
Copyright | |
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