Films are often constructions of reality, offering representations of the current issues within a society's culture. "Shame" is a 1988 Australian film that reflects some of the pernicious issues that have become naturalized in our real-life society, such as a deep rooted rape culture upheld by a dominant male discourse. The film follows a barrister, Asta Cadell, as she travels through rural Ginborak and witnesses ... the tragic journey of rape victim Lizzie Curtis. This representation of society exposes the detrimental effects of a male hegemony, and the subsequent rape culture that flourishe...

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... to a reader from the sixties, is due to the vast ideological differences in societies concepts of how women should behave in comparison to the entrenched system of patriarchy that dominated Australian Anglo-Saxon society up to the late sixties and early seventies. From the seventies change began when patriarchy was challenged by women's movements and individuals such as Germaine Greer. In ... 1971, Greer's book The Female Unich focused on women's issues and rights helping women to challenge many of the patriarchal views long held by Australian society. Many women began to campaign for e...

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