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'The year 2011 saw the igniting of mass protest around the issue of sexual double standards for women with numerous marches worldwide called 'SlutWalks'. Thousands of women across a range of countries including America, Europe, Britain and Australia took to the streets to defend the right of women to dress and behave freely without stigmatisation and violence. The 'SlutWalks' started in reaction to a local policeman in Toronto telling a class of college students to avoid dressing like 'sluts' if they did not wish to be victimised (SlutWalk Toronto site). The public protest in response to this incident demonstrates resistance to historically embedded discourses that demean women's sexuality and blame women for abuse and rape they suffer. Terms such as 'slut' perpetuate a virgin/whore dichotomy fundamental to the oppression of female sexual self-expression. These marches are a recent example that follows on from a tradition of mass protests for women's sexual equality and right to safety such as 'Reclaim the Night'. Drawing on writing and conversations with poets Dorothy Porter and Gig Ryan, novelists Drusilla Modjeska, Kate Grenville, Carmel Bird and Melissa Lucashenko and playwright, Leah Purcell, this article offers insights into individual creative women's responses to this theme of women's sexuality. I argue that the work and ideas of these women are examples of the unique and powerful dialogue that can happen through a focus on creativity and female stories in Australia.' (Author's introduction)
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Animal Handlers : Australian Women Writers on Sexuality and the Female Body
Outskirts : Feminisms along the Edge
Subjects:
- Dreamhouse 1986 single work novel
- Lilian's Story 1985 single work novel
- Bridgings : Readings in Australian Women's Poetry 1996 anthology poetry criticism extract
- Talkin' Up to the White Woman : Aboriginal Women and Feminism 2000 single work criticism
- Exiles at Home : Australian Women Writers 1925-1945 1981 single work criticism biography
- Poppy 1990 single work novel
- The Monkey's Mask 1994 single work novel
- Box the Pony 1997 single work drama
- Along the Faultlines : Sex, Race and Nation in Australian Women's Writing - 1880s-1930s 1995 selected work criticism
- Damned Whores and God's Police : The Colonization of Women in Australia 1975 single work non-fiction
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