Bibliograph

The first stone, some questions about sex and power, Helen Garner, foreword by Leigh Sales, afterword by Bernadette Brennan ; read by full cast

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The first stone, some questions about sex and power, Helen Garner, foreword by Leigh Sales, afterword by Bernadette Brennan ; read by full cast

Language

eng

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Main title

The first stone

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Responsibility statement

Helen Garner, foreword by Leigh Sales, afterword by Bernadette Brennan ; read by full cast

Sub title

some questions about sex and power

Summary

An account of an Australian sexual harassment case in which two female students filed police charges against a college official. The shock of these charges split the community and painfully focused the debate about sex and power. In the autumn of 1992, two young women students at Melbourne University went to the police claiming that they had been indecently assaulted at a party. The man they accused was the head of their co-ed residential college. The shock of these charges split the community and painfully focused the debate about sex and power

Target audience

adult

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