White women, Aboriginal missions, and Australian settler governments : maternal contradictions
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White women, Aboriginal missions, and Australian settler governments : maternal contradictions
（Studies in Christian mission, v. 56）
Brill, c2019
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-197) and index
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Description
In White Women, Aboriginal Missions and Australian Settler Governments, Joanna Cruickshank and Patricia Grimshaw provide the first detailed study of the central part that white women played in missions to Aboriginal people in Australia. As Aboriginal people experienced violent dispossession through settler invasion, white mission women were positioned as 'mothers' who could protect, nurture and 'civilise' Aboriginal people. In this position, missionary women found themselves continuously navigating the often-contradictory demands of their own intentions, of Aboriginal expectations and of settler government policies. Through detailed studies that draw on rich archival sources, this book provides a new perspective on the history of missions in Australia and also offers new frameworks for understanding the exercise of power by missionary women in colonial contexts.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Maps
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Mission and Marriage in Early Colonial Contexts
2 Mothers and Daughters in Victoria
3 Wives, Widows and Sisters in Far North Queensland
4 Single White Women and Faith Missions
5 Beyond Protection in Southeastern Australia
6 Teachers and Nurses in the North
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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