The study of domestic violence in colonial Queensland: Sources and problems

Saunders, Kay

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“…Certainly in relation to family violence, incidence remained high: domestic violence and incest were common, and courts dealt with these cases ineffectively. 37 In the mid-nineteenth century, statutory limitations on women's economic and legal independence compounded violence in the home. The vast majority of married women depended upon their husbands for economic survival; women's wages were low and their property rights non-existent before the 1880s.…”

Section: Historical Contexts Of Fatherhood and Family Violencementioning

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The dark side of the family: paternal child homicide in Australia

Kaladelfos

2013

Journal of Australian Studies

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The dark side of the family: paternal child homicide in Australia

Kaladelfos

2013

Journal of Australian Studies

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“…Batt y presents various examples of the ordinariness of violence which also show how victimhood was sometimes co-constructed through multiple informal and formal relationships. Overall, this study suggests that explanations for DV and the creation of persuasive languages of prevention should include considerations of historical changes and continuities in perceptions and meanings (Gibson-Graham 1995;Saunders 1984), intersubjective responses to violence (Cerulo 1998) and a deeper analysis of the implications of visual campaigns in cosmopolitan spaces which are fi lled in with images that aggressively compete for viewers' att ention. Campaigns could integrate local people's notions and diverse expressions of anti-violence.…”

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“…While the histories of women in mainstream Australia are not uniform, broad descriptions indicate that historically the subordinate positions of women can be traced to the gendered social inequalities that were pervasive in the country's colonial sett lements in mid-nineteenth century (Moore 1998;Saunders 1984;Saunders and Taylor 2009;Spearritt 2009). According to Clive Moore (1998: 43), 'in Australia, dominant colonial Anglo-Celtic manhood and masculinity was constructed against the image of a multiple "other": women; recent immigrant males; non-Caucasian males; and limits of the expression of homosocial and homoerotic behaviour'.…”

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“…Silence shaped the responses to DV among mainstream families, neighbours and state institutions. Only extreme cases of DV were occasionally brought to the att ention of the authorities, but once dealt with these cases where archived (Saunders 1984). Such types of institutional and social silence have been highlighted by Michael Herzfeld (2005: 3) through his idea of 'cultural intimacy', which he argues is formed between ruling elites and ordinary citizens.…”

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Silence and Visual Representations of Anti-Violence Campaigns in Cosmopolitan Brisbane

Igreja¹

2018

Anthropology in Action

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In spite of the growing public focus on domestic violence (DV) in mainstream Australian society, ethnographers have remained aloof from analysing this problem. In an ethnographic study in the Brisbane region, I analysed people’s perceptions of anti-violence images that were part of a public campaign and assessed the appropriateness of the images’ locations. Occasionally, my interlocutors unexpectedly included accounts of DV. My analysis reveals the tensions between public display and the concealment underlying the campaign. The interlocutors revealed experiences of competing responsibilities related to DV. The use of subtle images of anti-violence in locations filled with competing images, coupled with a failure to consider historical continuities and changes in local imaginaries of violence, exposed the difficulties associated with conveying persuasive messages of DV prevention.

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“…November 2015; https://www.huffpost.com/archive/au/entry/we-have-a-nationalcrisis-when-it-comes-to-violence-against-wome_b_8527502 [Date accessed: 20/2/2023] 4 KaySaunders (1984): "The study of domestic violence in colonial Queensland: Sources and problems," Historical Studies, 21:82,[68][69][70][71][72][73][74][75][76][77][78][79][80][81][82][83][84] …”

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“A shot reputation:” rape in colonial Australia and why it matters today

Klepač

2023

SRAZ

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emotion that is a learned response and its effect on society. The roots of the framing of rape and sexual assault as we see it today in Australia go back to colonial times and the narratives of sexual crime executed in racy language that were freely circulated in Australian colonial press. The reports of Mount Rennie rape case by the frequency and “cross-cultural references invoked in discussing the crime achieved a singular level of cultural production which has far wider references than legal history” (Peers 1998). They gave birth to the debate of the “real rape” vs. “simple rape” as defined by Susan Estrich (1987) and marked Australian public discourse and public attitude toward rape until the present day. Thus, in November 2015 Michaelia Cash, Minister for Employment and Minister for Women claimed “We have a national crisis when it comes to violence against women in Australia” to which testify reports of the Australian Bureau of Statistics on women’s safety, National Student Safety report, all the way to Brittany Higgins’ story and the way it was dealt with in the media and within the legal system. As long as “One in seven young Australians say rape is justified if women change their mind” according to National Community Attitudes Towards Violence Against Women Survey (NCAS) there is still a lot to be done to change the cultural narrative of “real rape” so that rape does not go underreported and unpunished as women fear shot reputation.

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The study of domestic violence in colonial Queensland: Sources and problems

Cited by 13 publications

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The dark side of the family: paternal child homicide in Australia

The dark side of the family: paternal child homicide in Australia

Silence and Visual Representations of Anti-Violence Campaigns in Cosmopolitan Brisbane

“A shot reputation:” rape in colonial Australia and why it matters today

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