White women, Aboriginal missions and Australian settler governments : maternal contradictions /

White women, Aboriginal missions and Australian settler governments : maternal contradictions /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Cruickshank, Joanna, 1974- author.
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
Description:	207 pages ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Studies in Christian mission, 0924-9389 ; volume 56 Studies in Christian mission ; v. 56.
Subject:	Aboriginal Australians -- Missions. Women missionaries -- Australia. Aboriginal Australians -- Missions. Women missionaries. Australia.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11927114

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Other authors / contributors:	Grimshaw, Patricia, author.
ISBN:	9789004397002 9004397000 9789004397019
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages [181]-197) and index.
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.
Other form:	Online version: Cruickshank, Joanna, 1974- author. White women, Aboriginal missions, and Australian settler governments Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2019 9789004397019

Table of Contents:

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.