Country Matters
Sexing the Reconciled Republic of Australia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3945659 |
|---|---|
| Authors | F Probyn-Rapsey (0000-0002-3908-0816, Gender Studies, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 89 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 73-86 |
| Publication date | 2008-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/fr.2008.3 |
| OpenAlex | W2037274446 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 25 |
This essay analyses how Australian postcolonial discourses, influenced by both Republicanism and Reconciliation, deploy the trope of woman to signify political change in both feminist and cultural debates about belonging, national legitimacy and sovereignty. I point out that white feminist rejection of the Queen in favour of embracing indigeneity is itself complicit with a history of 'incorporating' and assimilating indigeneity - a complicity that is sublimated in favour of a triumphant rejection of Imperial white womanhood. The essay looks at a contemporary Australian novel, media depictions of Paul Keating's 'embrace' of Queen Elizabeth II (as a kind of captivity narrative), critical whiteness studies' 'rejection' of the Queen and the misrecognition of Australia's distinct characteristics as a 'settler culture' (that incorporates indigeneity) within Australian feminist debates and claims of 'transgression' that are made for interracial relationships in Australia
Complicity · Legitimacy · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sovereignty · Trope (literature) · White (mutation) · Anthropology · Australian History and Society · Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
Australian women
The Cultivation of Whiteness
Empire and sexuality
The Empire Writes Back
Separatism or Status‐Quo
The Politics of Identity in Australia
The cultivation of whiteness
The Sexual Contract
The Logic of Masculinist Protection
Thinking of England
Sex, race and power
Sisterhood or Aboriginal servitude? Black women and White women on the Australian frontier
Bound and Determined
Meaning Well and Global Good Manners
Disciplining the Female Aboriginal Body
Consent in a (Neo)Colonial Society
Land, Labor, and Difference
It's All In the Family
Empire and Sexuality
Broken Circles
The Captive Republic
Debutante Nation
Fear and Temptation
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,06 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2010 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |