Colonial women on intercultural frontiers
Rosa Campbell Praed, Mary Bundock and Katie Langloh Parker∗
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12344652 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Patricia Grimshaw (The University of Melbourne, corresponding author), Julie Evans (0000-0002-7450-5744, The University of Melbourne) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 106 |
| Pages | 79-95 |
| Publication date | 1996-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1031-461X • E-ISSN: 1940-5049 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10314619608596000 |
| OpenAlex | W2030692967 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 16 |
In a way unusual for their sex in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, three colonial women, Rosa Campbell Praed, Mary Bundock and Katie Langloh Parker, contributed in minor but not insignificant ways to knowledge of Australian settlement. The dominant colonial discourse obscured white cruelty on the frontier and denigrated Aborigines and their culture. Praed, Bundock and Parker, squatters’ daughters and pastoralists’ wives, made a bid for public recognition, one as a novelist, two as ethnographer and folklorist. While undeniably aligned to the colonists’ value systems, the women challenged accepted wisdom to affirm aspects of Aboriginal lives and cultures, while questioning white behaviour and practices
Archaeology · Colonialism · Criminology · Cruelty · Ethnography · Frontier · Geography · Pastoralism · Settlement (finance · Sociology · White (mutation · Anthropology · Australian History and Society · Canadian Identity and History · Gender Studies · History · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
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Australian women
Gender relations in Australia
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Identity Crisis
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2014 (13) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |