1.0Anne Summershttp://legacy.annesummers.com.auCarmenhttp://legacy.annesummers.com.au/author/carmbogmail-com/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content"><a href="http://legacy.annesummers.com.au/product/damned-whores-and-gods-police/">Damned Whores and God’s Police</a></blockquote> <script type='text/javascript'> <!--//--><![CDATA[//><!-- /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";var e=!1,o=!1;if(l.querySelector)if(d.addEventListener)e=!0;if(d.wp=d.wp||{},!d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage)if(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if(t)if(t.secret||t.message||t.value)if(!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){var r,a,i,s,n,o=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]');for(r=0;r<c.length;r++)c[r].style.display="none";for(r=0;r<o.length;r++)if(a=o[r],e.source===a.contentWindow){if(a.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message){if(1e3<(i=parseInt(t.value,10)))i=1e3;else if(~~i<200)i=200;a.height=i}if("link"===t.message)if(s=l.createElement("a"),n=l.createElement("a"),s.href=a.getAttribute("src"),n.href=t.value,n.host===s.host)if(l.activeElement===a)d.top.location.href=t.value}}},e)d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",t,!1),d.addEventListener("load",t,!1);function t(){if(!o){o=!0;var e,t,r,a,i=-1!==navigator.appVersion.indexOf("MSIE 10"),s=!!navigator.userAgent.match(/Trident.*rv:11\./),n=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content");for(t=0;t<n.length;t++){if(!(r=n[t]).getAttribute("data-secret"))a=Math.random().toString(36).substr(2,10),r.src+="#?secret="+a,r.setAttribute("data-secret",a);if(i||s)(e=r.cloneNode(!0)).removeAttribute("security"),r.parentNode.replaceChild(e,r)}}}}(window,document); //--><!]]> </script><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="http://legacy.annesummers.com.au/product/damned-whores-and-gods-police/embed/" width="600" height="338" title="“Damned Whores and God’s Police” — Anne Summers" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe>http://legacy.annesummers.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/dwagp11.jpg305463The Colonization of Women in Australia (Penguin Books, 1975, 1994, 2002) Anne Summers’ classic work on the role of women in Australian society was, and remains, a landmark publication. Revised twice with new material in 1994 and 2002 and sales of more than 100,000 copies, Damned Whores and God’s Police was in November 2003 voted one of the top ten books of the past 40 years by The Australian Sociological Association. DAMNED WHORES & GOD’S POLICE 40 YEARS ON (DW&GP40) CONFERENCE A conference to examine the impact of Anne Summers’ groundbreaking book at the University of Technology Sydney 21–23 September 2015. More Information. WHAT THEY SAID IN 1975 “No one who reads this book will ever be able to see Australian history quite the same way they did before. There is genuinely new vision in the book”. Professor Richard Spann, Department of Government and Public Administration, University of Sydney – “The book is to be welcomed as an important contribution in a field in which others have tried to plough but were not able to finish. Anne Summers, happily, had the gift of the survivor.” Manning Clark, The Australian, November 8, 1975 “She has contributed a compelling and often startling book in which she re-examines the entire history of white settlement in Australia.” Michael Cannon, The Age, November 8, 1975 WHAT THEY SAID IN 1994 “This collection answers the challenge issued to young feminists in 1995 by Anne Summers in a now-famous question: ‘Where are the books or the articles by young Australian women setting out their thoughts, seizing control of the debates, tweaking the noses of the old guard?’. Introduction to Rosamund Else-Mitchell and Naomi Flutter (eds), Talking Up. Young Women’s Take on Feminism (Spinifex 1998) See also Kathy Bail (ed), DIY feminism (Allen & Unwin 1996) and Virginia Trioli, Generation f: sex, power and the young feminist (Minerva 1996) “When I reviewed the first edition of Anne Summers’s book in 1975, I admired the force of her argument and the impressive sweep of her historical chapters, but I thought that at times she was teetering on the edge of extremism. I now think I was wrong…” John Douglas Pringle, Sydney Morning Herald, January 1, 1994 “Congratulations to Anne for putting her mind again to this important work which has traced over time the evolution from 1788 to the present the threads of exclusion and oppression, the threads of misunderstanding and misrepresentation, the threads of prejudice, of victimization, the threads of violence. It’s there, written tightly for all to read, recording the changes as we’ve made them.” Prime Minister Paul Keating, launching the 1994 revised edition, January 24, 1994