The ‘Lubra' Type in Australian Imaginings of the Aboriginal Woman from 1836–1973

Conor, Liz

doi:10.1111/1468-0424.12016

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“…Liz Conor has suggested that Aboriginal women -as a group -were routinely insulted and dismissed by colonisers as uncivilised and sexually available 'gins' or 'lubras'. 74 In addition, Aboriginal practices for upholding systems of status and reputation were disregarded. As Russell and Nigel Worden note, 'the honour codes of indigenous societies were rarely recognised as such, and few white colonists were prepared to extend the right to respect to Aboriginal people'.…”

Section: With Innuendo Hint and Sneer;mentioning

confidence: 99%

Whores Aboard and Laws Abroad: English Women and Sexual Slander in Early Colonial New South Wales

Lake

2022

Gender & History

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In the nineteenth century, a gendered reform movement – the Slander of Women Acts – swept through the British common law world, making it easier for women to sue for defamatory allegations of sexual immorality. By examining two slander cases brought by women in early New South Wales and radical reforms passed in 1847, this article locates the Australian colonies within this global campaign. Arguing that slander worked to reinscribe a woman's colonial category, police ‘savage’ speech and rectify respectability for economic purposes, it shows how ideas of reputation and its protection diverged across the UK, USA and Australia at this time.

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Section: With Innuendo Hint and Sneer;mentioning

confidence: 99%

Whores Aboard and Laws Abroad: English Women and Sexual Slander in Early Colonial New South Wales

Lake

2022

Gender & History

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“…He also called them black gins in several places (p. 86), another derogatory term (Evans, 1999). While it may be possible to place Fysh's terminology into the context of the day, officers working with Australian Aboriginals in the Northern Territories were forbidden to use the term "lubra" in 1963 (Conor, 2013). There was at least the beginning of changing attitudes toward racism against Australian Aboriginals when Fysh published his book; however, in Qantas Rising (Fysh, 1966), he freely used racially charged terminology, which serves to place Australian Aboriginals, and Australian Aboriginal women in particular, in a marginalized position in the story of Qantas.…”

Section: Australian Aboriginal Womenmentioning

confidence: 99%

Intersectional history: exploring intersectionality over time

Shaffner

Mills

2019

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Purpose This paper aims to outline the possibilities of intersectional history as a novel method for management history. Intersectional history combines intersectionality and the study of the past to examine discrimination in organizations over time. This paper explores the need for intersectional work in management history, outlines the vision for intersectional history and provides a brief example analyzing the treatment of Australian Aboriginal people in a historical account of Qantas Airways. Design/methodology/approach This paper contends that intersectionality is a discursive practice, and it adopts a relational approach to the study of the past to inform the method. This paper focuses on the social construction of identities and the enduring nature of traces of the powerful in organizations over time. Findings The example of Qantas Airways demonstrates that intersectional history can be used to interrogate powerful traces of the past to reveal novel insights about marginalized peoples over time. Originality/value Intersectional history is a specific and reflexive method that allows for the surfacing of identity-based marginalization over time. The paper’s concentration on identity as socially constructed allows a particular focus on notions or representations of the marginalized in traces of the past. These traces may otherwise mask the existence and importance of marginalized groups in organizations’ dominant histories.

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“…Indigenous women, then, were thought by advertisers to be both unavailable and unsuitable for education as consumers. They did, however, make an appearance in the pages of women’s magazines of this period: as race types in advertisements selling cleaning products to non-Indigenous women (Conor, 2013, pp. 242-243).…”

Section: The Woman’s Budget Bureaumentioning

confidence: 99%

TheWoman’s BudgetBureau: friendship and consumption in Australia

Dickenson

2016

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Purpose This paper aims to reveal the marshalling of an emotion – loneliness – over time for the construction of relationships between advertisers and consumers between 1909 and 1934, paying attention to the shifting contexts in which these relationships were built, maintained and extended. It also draws attention to the ways in which advertising and marketing work in society, and advances the understanding of the development of consumer culture in Australia. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses textual analysis of letters from readers and editorial content published in the magazine over a 25-year period, supplemented by material from newspapers and memoirs. Findings The paper reveals how a women’s magazine marshalled the loneliness of Australian women, especially rural Australian women, to attach them to the magazine and its advertisers. Over 25 years, the magazine editors built a reservoir of trust between readers and the magazine. When the economy turned, this reservoir could be drawn upon to maintain reader attachment and maximise sales. Research limitations/implications This paper examines the use of emotion in just one magazine. A comparative study would be beneficial to see whether this exploitation of emotion was widespread. Practical implications The paper suggests the importance of emotion as a tool for attaching consumers to brands and for maintaining that attachment through financial difficulties. Originality/value This paper supports the turn to the study of emotion in history and, specifically, in the development of consumer culture.

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The ‘Lubra' Type in Australian Imaginings of the Aboriginal Woman from 1836–1973

Cited by 7 publications

References 13 publications

Whores Aboard and Laws Abroad: English Women and Sexual Slander in Early Colonial New South Wales

Whores Aboard and Laws Abroad: English Women and Sexual Slander in Early Colonial New South Wales

Intersectional history: exploring intersectionality over time

TheWoman’s BudgetBureau: friendship and consumption in Australia

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