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Destroying The Joint
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Early in September 2012, commentator Alan Jones, responding to a comment by Prime Minister Julia Gillard, said: 'She [Gillard] said that we know societies only reach their full potential if women are politically participating. Women are destroying the joint – Christine Nixon in Melbourne, Clover Moore here. Honestly.' The twitterverse exploded with passionate, disbelieving and hilarious responses, and here in Destroying the Joint women reply to this comment and the broader issues of sexism and misogyny in our culture. With Jane Caro editing, this entertaining and thought-provoking collection consists of essays, analysis, memoir, fiction and more, from a variety of Australian women writers.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Author biography
- Title page
- Imprint page
- Contents
- Introduction: Sometimes You Just Have to Laugh
- 1 A Complex Problem
- 2 Destroying the Joint Is About More Than Being a Woman in Power
- 3 A Fairer Country
- 4 Destroying the Joint Starts at Home
- 5 Girl Talk
- 6 Women Destroy the Joint
- 7 History’s Footnote, or, a Wolvi Incident
- 8 We Are Destroying the Joint
- 9 Global Destroyers
- 10 Birth of a Movement
- 11 Spanners and Mirages
- 12 Love Tweets
- 13 The Writing on the Walls
- 14 We Appointed a Woman Executive Once … It Didn’t Work Out
- 15 Destroying the Joint in Twelve Easy Lessons
- 16 Women Talk Back
- 17 Speaking Truth to Power: Sexism, Outrage and the Public Consciousness
- 18 There’s Nothing Funny About Misogyny
- 19 A Letter to Feminists from a Man Who Knows Better
- 20 Outside Manners
- 21 Joint Destroyer, Born and Raised
- 22 Beyond Jeering: An Unapologetic Love Letter to Teen Girls
- 23 Leaky Ladies and Their Worrisome Wombs
- 24 The Politics of Exclusion
- 25 Markers of Change
- 26 The University and the Beast: A Fairy Tale
- Contributors
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
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