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Damned whores and God's police : the colonization of women in Australia / Anne Summers.
Record no.:
4326
Author:
Summers, Anne, 1945-;
Publisher:
Ringwood, Vic. :: Penguin Books,
Year:
1975.
Series:
A Pelican original
Description:
494 pages ; 20 cm
Subject:
Women - Australia - History.;
Women's rights - Australia.;
Notes:
Gift ; Nagle Library MacLeod Collection copy donated by Emeritus Professor Roy MacLeod.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-477) and index.
Type:
Monograph
ISBN:
0140218327 9780140218329 9780713909876 0713909870;
Abstract:
Part One. The nexus of oppression -- 1. A sexist culture -- 2. Manzone country -- 3. The sporting wife -- 4. The ravaged self -- 5. The poverty of dependence -- 6. The family of woman -- 7. A colonized sex -- Part Two. Sexist stereotypes past and present
-- 9. 'Damned whores' -- 10. 'God's Police' -- 11. Feminism and the suffragists -- 12. The mobilization of mum -- 13. Suburban neurotics? -- 14. Prospects for liberation.

Ideology of sexism in Australia, the nexus of oppression, sexist stereotypes past and present.
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