Talkin' up to the White Woman : Indigenous Women and Feminism.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moreton-Robinson, Aileen.

Series:

Indigenous Americas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women, Aboriginal Australian.

Feminism--Australia.

Feminism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2021.

Summary:

"The twentieth anniversary of the original publication of this influential and prescient work is commemorated with a new edition of Talkin’ Up to the White Woman by Aileen Moreton-Robinson. In this bold book, of its time and ahead of its time, whiteness is made visible in power relations, presenting a dialogic of how white feminists represent Indigenous women in discourse and how Indigenous women self-present. Moreton-Robinson argues that white feminists benefit from colonization: they are overwhelmingly represented and disproportionately predominant, play the key roles, and constitute the norm, the ordinary, and the standard of womanhood. They do not self-present as white but rather represent themselves as variously classed, sexualized, aged, and abled. The disjuncture between representation and self-presentation of Indigenous women and white feminists illuminates different epistemologies and an incommensurability in the social construction of gender. Not so much a study of white womanhood, Talkin’ Up to the White Woman instead reveals an invisible racialized subject position represented and deployed in power relations with Indigenous women. The subject position occupied by middle-class white women is embedded in material and discursive conditions that shape the nature of power relations between white feminists and Indigenous women—and the unjust structural relationship between white society and Indigenous society." -- Publisher's description.

Contents:

Tellin’ It Straight: Self-Presentation within Indigenous Women’s Life Writings

Look Out White Woman: Representations of “The White Woman” in Feminist Theory

Puttem “Indigenous Woman”: Representations of the “Indigenous Woman” in White Women’s Ethnographic Writings

Little Bit Woman: Representations of Indigenous Women in White Australian Feminism

White Women’s Way: Self-Presentation within White Feminist Academics’ Talk

Tiddas Speakin’ Strong: Indigenous Women’s Self-Presentation within White Australian Feminism

Conclusion: Talkin’ Up to the White Woman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-218) and index.

ISBN:

1452966885

1517912288

9781452966885

9781517912284

1452966893

9781452966892

OCLC:

1276861578