Solidarity and Justice

Starting from a description of the ways that white women-here, Kerri-Anne Kennerly-will centre themselves and their colonial worldview in order to dictate the terms through which Aboriginal lives should be understood and known, McQuire shows how colonial representations are a form of violence. For w...

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Published inLilith (Fitzroy, Vic.) no. 28; pp. 137 - 176
Main Author Silverstein, Jordana
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Wollongong Australian Women's History Network 01.12.2022
Subjects
Black people
Feminism
Historians
Historiography
Holocaust
Native peoples
Statelessness
Witnesses
Women
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Summary:Starting from a description of the ways that white women-here, Kerri-Anne Kennerly-will centre themselves and their colonial worldview in order to dictate the terms through which Aboriginal lives should be understood and known, McQuire shows how colonial representations are a form of violence. For we know of course of the long history of white feminism in this country, of the ways that white women have located themselves at the centre, the way feminist movements have been an integral part of the broader colonial project. Jordana Silverstein is a senior research fellow in the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness in the Melbourne Law School at the University of Melbourne.
ISSN:0813-8990