Destroying The Joint
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Destroying The Joint

  1. 310 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Destroying The Joint

About this book

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

  1. Front Cover
  2. Author biography
  3. Title page
  4. Imprint page
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction: Sometimes You Just Have to Laugh
  7. 1 A Complex Problem
  8. 2 Destroying the Joint Is About More Than Being a Woman in Power
  9. 3 A Fairer Country
  10. 4 Destroying the Joint Starts at Home
  11. 5 Girl Talk
  12. 6 Women Destroy the Joint
  13. 7 History’s Footnote, or, a Wolvi Incident
  14. 8 We Are Destroying the Joint
  15. 9 Global Destroyers
  16. 10 Birth of a Movement
  17. 11 Spanners and Mirages
  18. 12 Love Tweets
  19. 13 The Writing on the Walls
  20. 14 We Appointed a Woman Executive Once … It Didn’t Work Out
  21. 15 Destroying the Joint in Twelve Easy Lessons
  22. 16 Women Talk Back
  23. 17 Speaking Truth to Power: Sexism, Outrage and the Public Consciousness
  24. 18 There’s Nothing Funny About Misogyny
  25. 19 A Letter to Feminists from a Man Who Knows Better
  26. 20 Outside Manners
  27. 21 Joint Destroyer, Born and Raised
  28. 22 Beyond Jeering: An Unapologetic Love Letter to Teen Girls
  29. 23 Leaky Ladies and Their Worrisome Wombs
  30. 24 The Politics of Exclusion
  31. 25 Markers of Change
  32. 26 The University and the Beast: A Fairy Tale
  33. Contributors
  34. Notes
  35. Acknowledgements