A remarkable book of the history of women convicts transported to Australia to keep company with the many more males convicts.

Damned Whores and God's Police: The Colonization of Women in Australia (A Pelican Original)

Summers, Anne

Penguin??Books

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.

Damned Whores and God's Police

History

Australia & Oceania

Penguin Books Australia

Damned Whores and God's Police has been constantly read and reprinted since it first appeared in 1975. It was and remains simply the most compelling account of how Australian culture has limited women's participation in their own society.In this groundbreaking book, Anne Summers maintains that two ways of defining women quickly become entrenched in Australia. Women were perceived either as 'damned whores' - the label given to convict women in the first years of white settlement - or 'God's police', 'respectable' women who from the early days of colonial Australia were assigned the role of moral guardians of the community. This persistent stereotyping has shaped what women have - and have not - been able to do in Australian society.Anne Summers remains passionately engaged with the problem of whether women can break through the constraints of Australian society to lead independent and fulfilled lives. In 1994 she updated this classic work to take stock of the two decades that followed the tumultuous changes of the early 1970s. Now she adds a clear-sighted assessment of where women stand in the new century, summarized in a comprehensive Time Line that will allow women to see just what has been accomplished - and how far there is still to go.

Damned whores and God's police

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Angels and Citizens: British Women As Military Nurses 1854-1914

Sociology

Routledge

<p>In this history of British women as military nurses between 1854 and 1914, the author combines a detailed account of the origins and development of the regular Army Nursing Service and its successor, the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nusing Service, with a narrative of the early years of the Red Cross and the experiences and adventures of women volunteers in the international war relief movement. Long before the electoral process gave them the vote, wars offered women many of the social rewards the vote symbolized: valued occupations, badges of honour and distinction, and a recognized position in the machinery of state. Wars represented a combination of citizenship, social legitimation, and personal challenge. Yet, as the author shows in this work, the figure of the war nurse was full of paradoxes: a symbol of motherhood and domesticity, required to play a part on the international stage; a symbol of healing, required to colaborate with a strategy of collective slaughter; a symbol of service and self-abnegation, encouraged to show pluck, initiative and responsibility. This story of the feminization of a formerly male profession and the militarization of the quintessentially civilian sector of society makes a vital contribution to our understanding of the public roles of women in the 20th century. It illuminates not only the failure of the pre-war feminist movement to construct a pacifist platform, but also the wholehearted and fatal mobilization of western Europe for the catastrophe of World War I.</p>

Angels and Citizens: British Women As Military Nurses, 1854-1914

Science & Math

Technology

Routledge& Kegan Paul

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How To Find Source Materials: British Library Collections on the History and Culture of Science, Technology and Medicine (How to Find Series)

Mathematics

CRC-Press

The Thursday shop: an antique dealer's diary

Roundwood P

Nana's house is the story of a family who endured trying times after leaving the island of Sicily for a better life in America. They discovered that the love of God is the greatest love of all.

Nana's House

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Heart World Books

This provocative examination by a media-savvy writer who remains at the forefront of the political debate surrounding gender equality explores why equality between men and women has failed to be achieved in Australia. In 2012, Anne Summers gave two landmark speeches about women in Australia, attracting more than 120,000 visits to her website. Within weeks thereafter, Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s own speech about misogyny and sexism went viral and was celebrated around the world. However, Summers makes the case that Australians are still uncomfortable with the idea of women with political and financial power, let alone the reality, and she dismisses the idea that progress for women—as opposed to outright success—should be celebrated. She then offers an idea of what truly successful gender equality should look like.

The Misogyny Factor

Women's Studies

NewSouth

<p>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.</p>

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Damned Whores and God's Police: The Colonization of Women in Australia (A Pelican Original)

Damned Whores and God's Police

Damned whores and God's police

Angels and Citizens: British Women As Military Nurses 1854-1914

Angels and Citizens: British Women As Military Nurses, 1854-1914

How To Find Source Materials: British Library Collections on the History and Culture of Science, Technology and Medicine (How to Find Series)

The Thursday shop: an antique dealer's diary

Nana's House

The Misogyny Factor

Damned Whores and God's Police