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Destroying the joint

Jane Caro
Early in September 2012, commentator Alan Jones, responding to a comment by Prime Minister Julia Gillard, said: 'She [Gillard] said that we know societies only reach their full potential if women are politically participating. Women are destroying the joint - Christine Nixon in Melbourne, Clover Moore here. Honestly.' The twitterverse exploded with passionate, disbelieving and hilarious responses, and here in Destroying the Joint women reply to this comment and the broader issues of sexism and misogyny in our culture. With Jane C
eBook, English, 2013
University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, Qld., 2013
1 online resource
9780702251771, 9780702251788, 9780702251795, 0702251771, 070225178X, 0702251798
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Introduction: Sometimes You Just Have to Laugh
A Complex Problem
Destroying the Joint Is About More Than Being a Woman in Power
A Fairer Country
Destroying the joint starts at home
Girl Talk
Women Destroy the Joint
History's Footnote, or, a Wolvi Incident
We Are Destroying the Joint
Global Destroyers
Birth of a Movement
Spanners and Mirages
Love Tweets
The Writing on the Walls
We Appointed a Woman Executive Once ... It Didn't Work Out
Destroying the Joint in Twelve Easy Lessons
Women Talk Back. Speaking Truth to Power: Sexism, Outrage and the Public Consciousness
There's Nothing Funny About Misogyny
A Letter to Feminists from a Man Who Knows Better
Outside Manners
Joint Destroyer, Born and Raised
Beyond Jeering: An Unapologetic Love Letter to Teen Girls
Leaky Ladies and Their Worrisome Wombs
The Politics of Exclusion
Markers of Change
University and the Beast: A Fairy Tale
Contributors
Notes
Acknowledgements
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