Image from Google Jackets

Sister girl : the writings of Aboriginal activist and historian Jackie Huggins / Jackie Huggins.

By: Publication details: St Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 1998.Description: xi, 152 p. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 0702228400
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.489915 21
Contents:
Firing On in the Mind -- Wedmedi --If Only You Knew -- Writing My Mother's Life -- But You Couldn't Possibly ... -- Are All the Women White? -- Reflections of Lilith -- White Apron Black Hands: Aboriginal Women Domestic Servants in Queensland -- Respect versus Political Corrrectnes -- The Great Deception: Working Inside thee Bureaucracy -- The Mothering Tongue -- Kooramindanjie: Place and the Postcolonial -- Oppressed but Liberated -- Experience and Identity: Writing History -- Auntie Rita's File -- Queensland: Is the Clock Still Back 100 years? -- Bringing Them Home
Summary: The articles in this collection represent a decade of writing by Aborginal historian and activist Jackie Huggins. Sister Girl examines many topics, including community action, political commitment, the tradition and the value of oral history, and goverment invention in in Aboriginal lives. It challlenges acccepted notions of appropriateness of mainstream feminism in Aboriginal society and of white historians writing Indiginous history. Closer to home, there are accounts of personal achievement and family experience as she revisits the writing of Auntie Rita with her Mother Rita Huggins -- the inspirataion for her lifework.
List(s) this item appears in: Stage 6 History: Movements for change in 20th century - A8: Women's movements
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks 305.4889915 HUG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library 62725

Includes bibliographical references.

Firing On in the Mind -- Wedmedi --If Only You Knew -- Writing My Mother's Life -- But You Couldn't Possibly ... -- Are All the Women White? -- Reflections of Lilith -- White Apron Black Hands: Aboriginal Women Domestic Servants in Queensland -- Respect versus Political Corrrectnes -- The Great Deception: Working Inside thee Bureaucracy -- The Mothering Tongue -- Kooramindanjie: Place and the Postcolonial -- Oppressed but Liberated -- Experience and Identity: Writing History -- Auntie Rita's File -- Queensland: Is the Clock Still Back 100 years? -- Bringing Them Home

The articles in this collection represent a decade of writing by Aborginal historian and activist Jackie Huggins. Sister Girl examines many topics, including community action, political commitment, the tradition and the value of oral history, and goverment invention in in Aboriginal lives. It challlenges acccepted notions of appropriateness of mainstream feminism in Aboriginal society and of white historians writing Indiginous history. Closer to home, there are accounts of personal achievement and family experience as she revisits the writing of Auntie Rita with her Mother Rita Huggins -- the inspirataion for her lifework.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.