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Skin deep / Liz Conor.

By: Publisher: Crawley, Western Australia UWA Publishing, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: xi, 514 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits, photographs ; 24 cmContent type:
  • still image
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781742588070
Other title:
  • Skin deep : settler impressions of Aboriginal women
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 305.89915
Summary: Skin Deep looks at the preoccupations of European-Australians in their encounters with Aboriginal women and the tropes, types and perceptions that seeped into everyday settler-colonial thinking. Early erroneous and uninformed accounts of Aboriginal women and culture were repeated throughout various print forms and imagery, both in Australia and in Europe, with names, dates and locations erased so that individual women came to be anonymised as ‘gins’ and ‘lubras’.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks 305.89915 CON (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library and ILL 67671

Includes bibliographical references (page [375]-504 ) and index.

Skin Deep looks at the preoccupations of European-Australians in their encounters with Aboriginal women and the tropes, types and perceptions that seeped into everyday settler-colonial thinking. Early erroneous and uninformed accounts of Aboriginal women and culture were repeated throughout various print forms and imagery, both in Australia and in Europe, with names, dates and locations erased so that individual women came to be anonymised as ‘gins’ and ‘lubras’.

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