Skin deep / Liz Conor.
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
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781742588070
- Skin deep : settler impressions of Aboriginal women
- Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Public opinion
- Women, Aboriginal Australian
- Indigenous women -- Australia
- Colonies -- Oceania
- Pioneers of Australia
- Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Public opinion
- Pioneers -- Australia -- Attitudes
- Women, Aboriginal Australian -- First contact with Europeans
- Aboriginal Australians and mass media
- Mass media and public opinion -- Europe -- History
- Australia -- Colonial influence
- Australian
- 305.89915
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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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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