Escaping Assimilation's Grasp
Aboriginal women in the Australian women's military services
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4349253 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Noah Riseman (0000-0002-4723-431X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 757-775 |
| Publication date | 2015-09-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women s History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0961-2025 • E-ISSN: 1747-583X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09612025.2014.975499 |
| OpenAlex | W2043870902 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
During the assimilation era of the 1930s–60s, most Australian Indigenous women living in proximity to white Australia were forced to work as domestic servants with few other education or employment prospects. One significant yet under-studied exception was employment in the armed services' women's auxiliaries. As a consequence of such employment, Aboriginal ex-servicewomen learned new skills and new opportunities to improve their social statuses. Through analysis of oral histories from four Aboriginal ex-servicewomen who served in the 1940s–60s, this article examines how work in the women's forces empowered Aboriginal women and represented an escape from assimilation policies
Cultural assimilation · Economic growth · Economics · Immigration · Indigenous · Oral history · Political science · Sociology · Australian History and Society · Canadian Identity and History · Engineering · Gender Studies · Law
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2018 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |