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50 years on: Damned Whores and Gods Police
Manage episode 477955995 series 5467
It’s fifty years since it was published, but the themes and issues it explores are maybe more relevant now than ever.
Damned Whores and Gods Police was a totemic book, that investigated the ways in which Australia had stereotyped women.
They were either virtuous mothers, or they were bad girls – scorned and rejected for not conforming to what society expected of them.
It was, and remains, a seminal text, an interrogation of Australian society.
GUEST: Dr Anne Summers Author, editor, journalist and researcher
714 episodes
Manage episode 477955995 series 5467
It’s fifty years since it was published, but the themes and issues it explores are maybe more relevant now than ever.
Damned Whores and Gods Police was a totemic book, that investigated the ways in which Australia had stereotyped women.
They were either virtuous mothers, or they were bad girls – scorned and rejected for not conforming to what society expected of them.
It was, and remains, a seminal text, an interrogation of Australian society.
GUEST: Dr Anne Summers Author, editor, journalist and researcher
714 episodes
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