Damned Whores and God's Police

Damned Whores and God's Police is a 1975 feminist history of Australia by Anne Summers. The book combines historical, sociological, and literary analysis, as well as radical feminist theory. It compares Australian women to a colonised people who have been subjugated since the early colonial era by being cast as either "damned whores" or as "God's police". Summers argues that women's liberation relies on women casting off these dual archetypes of whore or mother.

While the book received a somewhat mixed reception upon its release, including criticism from some feminists, it is now widely regarded as a landmark text in Australian feminist history. New editions of the book were released in 1994, 2002, and 2015, and more than 100,000 copies have been sold. The work is seen as having contributed to the development of a new wave of revisionist feminist histories of Australia in the years following its release.