Damned Whores And God's Police by Anne Summers

Damned Whores And God's Police by Anne Summers

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.

Anne Summers is a writer, a journalist, and the author of Damned Whores and God's Police, The Lost Mother, and On Luck. She writes for a number of publications, including the Sydney Morning Herald, the Age, and the Australian Financial Review. She has worked as a senior bureaucrat and political adviser, is the editor of the digital magazine Anne Summers Reports, and is the former editor in chief of the landmark feminist New York-based Ms. magazine.

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ISBN 13	9780140218329
ISBN 10	0140218327
Title	Damned Whores And God's Police
Author	Anne Summers
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	1981-11-26
Number of pages	496
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