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Damned Whores and God's Police
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Sexual harassment, domestic violence and date rape had not been named, although they certainly existed, when
Damned Whores and God's Police was first published in 1975. That was before the Sex Discrimination Act of 1984 and before large numbers of women became visible in employment, in politics and elsewhere across society. It was in this climate that Anne Summers identified 'damned whores' and 'God's police', the stereotypes that characterized all women as being either virtuous mothers whose function was to civilize society or bad girls who refused, or were unable, to conform to that norm and who were thus spurned and rejected. These stereotypes persist to this day, argues Anne Summers in this updated version of her classic book.
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Australian & Oceanian HistoryIndex
HistoryTable of contents
- Front Cover
- About the Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction to the 2016 edition
- Author’s note to the second revised edition [2002]
- Author’s note to the new edition [1994]
- Introduction to the new edition [1994]
- Introduction [1975]
- Part One | The nexus of oppression
- Part Two | Sexist stereotypes past and present
- Letter to the next generation [1994]
- The march of women [2002]
- Timeline of achievements by and for Australian women 1788–2015
- Notes
- Index
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