When the Object Speaks, A Postcolonial Encounter: anthropological representations and Aboriginal women's self‐presentations

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As an Aboriginal woman currently reviewing feminist literature in Australia, I haveud found that representations of Aboriginal women's gender have been generated predominantlyud by women anthropologists. Australian feminists utilise this literature in theirud writing and teaching and accept its truths without question; the most often quotedud ethnographic text is Diane Bell's Daughters of the Dreaming (1983a).1 Feminists' lack ofud critical engagement with this literature implies that they are content to accept womenud anthropologists' representations because Aboriginal women are not central to theirud constructions of feminism.2 Instead the Aboriginal woman is positioned on the margins,ud a symbol of difference; a reminder that it is feminists who are the bearers of trueud womanhood

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