White women, Aboriginal missions, and Australian settler governments : maternal contradictions / by Joanna Cruickshank, Patricia Grimshaw.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cruickshank, Joanna, 1974- author.

Series:

Studies in Christian Mission 56.

Studies in Christian mission, 0924-9389 ; VOLUME 56

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aboriginal Australians--Missions.

Aboriginal Australians.

Women missionaries--Australia.

Women missionaries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2019.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright page

Acknowledgments

Maps

Abbreviations

Introduction

Mission and Marriage in Early Colonial Contexts

Mothers and Daughters in Victoria

Wives, Widows and Sisters in Far North Queensland

Single White Women and Faith Missions

Beyond Protection in Southeastern Australia

Teachers and Nurses in the North

Conclusion

Back Matter

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-39701-9

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004397019 DOI