‘Wanted! A Real White Australia’: The Women’s Movement, Whiteness and the Settler Colonial Project, 1900–1940

Carey, Jane Louise

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“…. ] based on claims of British moral and racial superiority" (Edmonds and Carey 2017, p. 377), and perpetuated by measures like the White Australia Policy that aimed at regulating immigration and population growth (see Carey 2011).…”

Section: Settler Colonialism and The Disturbance Of Homementioning

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Unsettling Australia: Disturbing White Settler Homemaking in Peter Carey’s True History of the Kelly Gang

Heinz

2020

Humanities

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Proceeding from Australia’s specific situation as a settler colony, this article discusses how the ambivalences and fissures of settler subjectivity shape processes of homemaking. Settler homemaking depends on the disturbance of Indigenous Australians’ homelands via dispossession, exclusion, and genocide, but it equally depends upon the creation of a white settler subject as innocent, entitled, and belonging to what has been called ‘white indigeneity’. The article traces this double disturbance in Peter Carey’s novel True History of the Kelly Gang (2000). Carey’s rewriting of the iconic Kelly legend uncovers the dangers of a possessive, male, white indigeneity based on effacement and exclusion. The novel’s critical staging of Ned Kelly’s construction of Australia as a home for a new class of ‘natives’ challenges an essentialist white Australianness and its narratives of embattled settlement, independence, mateship, and the Bush. The novel shows that the creation of this national character is based on the denial of Aboriginal ownership and agency. Ned’s narrative of Irish victimhood and his formation of a new sense of Australianness is therefore doomed to repeat the violence, discrimination, and exclusion of colonialism that he seems to decry.

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Section: Settler Colonialism and The Disturbance Of Homementioning

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Unsettling Australia: Disturbing White Settler Homemaking in Peter Carey’s True History of the Kelly Gang

Heinz

2020

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“…73 As Jane Carey has shown, for 'many elite [Australian] women the spectre of racial degeneracy loomed large' and this presumed threat galvanized much of the reform agenda of the Australian women's movement in the early 1900s. 74 On 18 June Clio expanded on the threat football might pose. A team representing the University of Melbourne had joined the Victorian Football League -the leading Australian Rules football competition in 1908.…”

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Female Spectators, Agency, and the Politics of Pleasure: An Historical Case Study from Australian Rules Football

Klugman

2016

The International Journal of the History of Sport

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This paper explores descriptions, commentary and critiques regarding the Melbourne women who came to follow Australian Rules football with notable passion in the late 1800s and early 1900s. While it is known that the press represented female spectators in various ways, the depictions of the women who shouted and 'barracked' in a manner similar to the men have not been studied in detail. This paper aims to redress this by drawing on the women's and 'social' pages of Melbourne newspapers, especially those of the 'Ladies Letters' published in Melbourne Punch. Purportedly written by upper class women, these letters provide an intriguing perspective on the zealous spectator culture that was emerging around Australian Rules football, the women who were a key part of this culture, and the broader debates and politics around women's rights and gender identity. At issue are intersecting questions of pleasure, rationality, class, gender and race that shed light on the new cultural category of the 'barracker' .

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‘Wanted! A Real White Australia’: The Women’s Movement, Whiteness and the Settler Colonial Project, 1900–1940

Cited by 2 publications

References 19 publications

Unsettling Australia: Disturbing White Settler Homemaking in Peter Carey’s True History of the Kelly Gang

Unsettling Australia: Disturbing White Settler Homemaking in Peter Carey’s True History of the Kelly Gang

Female Spectators, Agency, and the Politics of Pleasure: An Historical Case Study from Australian Rules Football

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