Australia as a patriarchal society
Title: Australia as a patriarchal society
Category: /Social Sciences/Sociology
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Australia as a patriarchal society
Category: /Social Sciences/Sociology
Details: Words: 2133 | Pages: 8 (approximately 235 words/page)
For centuries, the role of women in society has been carefully defined by a patriarchal sociological system. Up until the 1960's it was considered a woman's national duty to reproduce and her primary function in life. To consciously limit the number of children that they had meant not only were women going against their natural function, but failing in that national duty (Currie & Adamson, 1977). Women have had to fight for the right to vote,
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