Destroying the joint
Subtitle: why women have to change the world
By: edited by Jane Caro
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: St Lucia, Qld
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780702249907
Subjects: Politics and government; Politics and literature; Leadership in women; Australian essays; Political activity; Women
Description: In 'Destroying the joint: why women have to change the world', Australian women reply to commentator Alan Jones's comment and the broader issues of sexism and misogyny in our culture.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: sometimes you just have to laugh / Jane Caro
pagenum: ix; title: A complex problem / Monica Dux
pagenum: 1; title: Destroying the joint is about more than being a woman in power / Christine Milne
pagenum: 11; title: A fairer country / Michelle Law
pagenum: 25; title: Destroying the joint starts at home / Leslie Cannold
pagenum: 35; title: Girl talk / Lily Edelstein
pagenum: 45; title: Women destroy the joint / Tara Moss
pagenum: 57; title: History's footnote, or, a Wolvi incident / Melissa Lucashenko
pagenum: 63; title: We are destroying the joint / Carmen Lawrence
pagenum: 70; title: Global destroyers / Emily Maguire
pagenum: 87; title: Birth of a movement / Destoy the Joint Administrators
pagenum: 99; title: Spanners and mirages / Jennifer Mills
pagenum: 107; title: Love tweets / Yvette Vignando
pagenum: 119; title: The writing on the walls / Jenna Price
pagenum: 128; title: We appointed a women executive once ... it didn't work out / Catherine Fox
pagenum: 149; title: Destroying the joint in twelve easy lessons / Catherine Deveny
pagenum: 156; title: Women talk back / Wendy Harmer
pagenum: 172; title: Speaking truth to power: sexism, outrage and the public consciousness / Paula McDonald and Abby Cathcart
pagenum: 182; title: There's nothing funny about misogyny / Clementine Ford
pagenum: 189; title: A letter to feminists from a man who knows better / Corinne Grant
pagenum: 198; title: Outside manners / Susan Johnson
pagenum: 206; title: Joint destroyer, born and raised / Steph Bowe
pagenum: 216; title: Beyond jeering: an unapologetic love letter to teen girls / Dannielle Miller
pagenum: 221; title: Leaky ladies and their worrisome wombs / Nina Funnell
pagenum: 228; title: The politics of exclusion / Stella Young
pagenum: 246; title: Markers of change / Penny Wong
pagenum: 257; title: The university and the beast: a fairy tale / Krissy Kneen.
pagenum: 263; title: Contributors
pagenum: 278; title: Notes
pagenum: 287; title: Acknowledgements
pagenum: 295