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Skin deep / Liz Conor.

Skin deep / Liz Conor.
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ISBN 9781742588070
Author Conor, Liz (author.)
Title Skin deep / Liz Conor.
Cover title Skin deep : settler impressions of Aboriginal women.
Publisher and/or associated date/s Crawley, Western Australia UWA Publishing, 2016.
©2016
Description xi, 514 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits, photographs ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page [375]-504 ) and index.
Contents 1.`A full account of the inhabitants': name-dropping in early encounters -- 2.`A species of rough gallantry': impressions of gender status -- 3.`If they be facts': infanticide and maternity -- 4.Footfall over thresholds: in and out of the settler-colonial domicile -- 5.`Black velvet' and `purple indignation': sexuality and `poaching' -- 6.`Absolute frights': appearance and elders.
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’.
Subjects Pioneers -- Australia -- Attitudes
Women, Aboriginal Australian -- First contact with Europeans
Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Public opinion
Aboriginal Australians and mass media
Mass media and public opinion -- Europe -- History
Call number 305.89915 CON
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