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- Title
"Dirty Domestics and Worse Cooks.".
- Authors
Russell, Lynette
- Abstract
The author focuses on domestic relationships between Aboriginal women and male settlers in the sealing industry in southern Australia after 1800 in an attempt to demonstrate how the home acted as a site which both supported and undermined colonialism. The author offers a brief history of colonization in southern Australia, discusses the domestic arrangements of Aboriginal women and male settlers, and relates the ways in which Aboriginal women resisted colonial processes, such as the continuation of traditional activities and languages. The author also highlights the agency of the women through a discussion of infanticide and discusses the depiction of family life in various texts of the period.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; ABORIGINAL Australian women; HOME (The concept); COLONIZATION -- Social aspects; COLONISTS; NONTRADITIONAL families; AGENT (Philosophy); INFANTICIDE; WOMEN'S studies; CULTURAL maintenance; SOCIAL conditions in Australia
- Publication
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, 2007, Vol 28, Issue 1/2, p18
- ISSN
0160-9009
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/fro.2007.0035