Reviews for Sexual Antipodes: Enlightenment Globalization and the Placing of Sex

The average rating for Sexual Antipodes: Enlightenment Globalization and the Placing of Sex based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-04-03 00:00:00 Doreen Accatino Pros: -Excellent subject and subject matter for International Women's Day -Distillation of so many sources and so much research, jeepers -FNQ history parts were of much interest to me, as a person who grew up in Effin' Q -How to be a woman and a communist and write both smutty literature and literature with a purpose, the JD story (also contribute to science and dismantling racism in your local regional city!) Cons: -I lacked context on a lot of the context and many of the name-drops were maddeningly opaque. Marion who? (Discover some paragraphs later it was -Style was academic and it was work to read. I can respect this, because the book is clearly the result of a huge amount of effort and it's only polite of the reader to do it the courtesy of giving back some effort. But it made it slow and sometimes hard going. We don't tend to cover Australian history much in school, and certainly not history that focuses on women or the Left. But it was fascinating to read about the women, women in the Left and out of it, writing and commenting and pushing for reform and revolution, during a period including the 1940s where, if it's covered at all, Australian history would be told as a military history abroad. Jean came to live in Australia for much of her life, but she was born and raised in New Zealand, and was anyway regarded as British. And she was loud and opinionated and a hell of a public speaker and organiser. She was already being written out of history books when she was still alive, so it's great that she has a history book of her own.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-09-03 00:00:00 Joseph Hernandez 3.5