'That Woman': Pauline Hanson and Cultural Crisis

Australian Feminist Studies

Volumn 14, Issue 29, 1999, Pages 161-171

  Probyn, Fiona ^a  

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DOI: 10.1080/08164649993416     Document Type: Article

References (60)

1. Hanson deserves feminist scrutiny because she signals the complicity of white women in the oppression of 'other' women and, as Jacki Huggins has argued, until white feminists acknowledge the fact that 'white women continue to play major oppressive roles in the lives of Aboriginal women and children ... many Aboriginal women will not be prepared to talk publicly, to audiences of "others", about the oppression they suffer through sexism'. Jackie Huggins, 'Aboriginal Women and the White Women's Movement' in Norma Grieve and Ailsa Burns (eds), Australian Women: Contemporary Feminist Thought (Oxford University Press) Melbourne, 1994, p. 77.
2. Women in Australia have an appalling track record in regard to gaining access to Federal Parliament. Ros Kelly was only the second woman to be a Federal Minister in 1987 in the Hawke government. Janine Haines became the first woman to lead an Australian National party (the Democrats) in 1986.
3. Judith Brett, 'Representing the Unrepresented: One Nation and the Formation of the Labor Party', Two Nations, pp. 26-37.
4. Marilyn Lake, 'Australian Frontier Feminism' in Claire Midgley (ed.), Gender and Imperialism (Manchester University Press) Manchester, 1998, pp. 123-36.
5. Richard Dyer White (Routledge) London, 1997, p. 184.
6. André Brink, Imaginings of Sand (Secker and Warburg) London, 1996, p. 332. Despite Brink's critique of the 'woman as cultural baggage handler' theme, Imaginings of Sand continues the conflation of Woman with Nation throughout.
7. Rosi Braidotti, Patterns of Dissonance (Polity Press) Cambridge, 1991, p. 11.
8. Paul Kelly, 'Hanson-Symptom of a Deeper Problem', Two Nations, pp. 89-102.
9. Two Nations: the Causes and Effects of the One Nation Party in Australia (Bookman Press) Melbourne, 1998, Foreword by Robert Manne.
10. Robert Manne, Foreword, Two Nations, pp. 3-9.
11. Jon Stratton, Race Daze: Australia in Identity Crisis (Pluto Press) NSW, 1998.
12. Robert Manne, Foreword, p. 6.
13. Peter Cochrane, 'Race Memory', Australian's Review of Books, 13 November 1996.
14. Kelly, 'Hanson', p. 95.
15. Ron Brunton, 'Keating's Legacy', Two Nations, pp. 38-47.
16. David Leser, 'Fear and Loathing: Inside the Mind of Pauline Hanson', Sydney Morning Herald, 30 November 1996, p. 20.
17. Thanks to Brigitta Olubas for this suggestion.
18. Philip Adams 'Pauline and Prejudice - it's in the Bag', Two Nations, pp. 20-5.
19. Peter Cochrane, 'Voices of the Past in Anglo Primal Scream', Australian, 10 October 1996, p. 11.
20. Robert Manne, 'It's a Shame; the Perils of Pauline', Australian, 4 November 1996, p. 13.
21. Michelle Grattan, 'Pauline Hanson's Hijack of Howard', Two Nations, pp. 75-88.
22. Kelly, 'Hanson', p. 99.
23. David Fagan, 'The Parochial World of Hanson', Weekend Australian, 12-13 October 1996, p. 23.
24. Michael Millet and Mike Secombe, 'The Power of Pauline Hanson', Sydney Morning Herald, 12 October 1996, pp. 31-4.
25. Goldstein was the 'first woman in the English speaking world to stand for election to a national legislature' as described by Jenni Mulraney, 'When a Lovely Woman Stoops to Lobby', Australian Feminist Studies, no. 7 & 8, Summer, 1988, pp. 94-111.
26. As quoted in Patricia Grimshaw, 'A White Woman's Suffrage' in Helen Irving (ed.), A Woman's Constitution?; Gender and History in the Australian Commonwealth (Hale & Iremonger) Sydney, 1996, p. 90.
27. Gail Bederman, Manliness and Civilisation: a Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States 1880-1917 (University of Chicago Press) Chicago, 1995, p. 152.
28. Fanon quoted in Anne McClintock, Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Context (Routledge) London, 1995, p. 366.
29. Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1902), Robert Kimbrough (ed.) (Norton) New York, 1971.
30. Arthur Boyd on Seven Thirty Report (ABC Television) 26 January 1995, as quoted in the endnotes of John Morton, 'Aboriginality, Mabo and the Republic' in Bain Attwood (ed.), In the Age of Mabo (Allen & Unwin) Sydney, 1996, pp. 117-35, 177.
31. Arthur Boyd on Seven Thirty Report (ABC Television) 26 January 1995, as quoted in the endnotes of John Morton, 'Aboriginality, Mabo and the Republic' in Bain Attwood (ed.), In the Age of Mabo (Allen & Unwin) Sydney, 1996, pp. 117-35, 177.
32. Terry Goldie, Fear and Temptation: the Image of the Indigene in Canadian, Australian and New Zealand Literatures (McGill Queen's University Press) Kingston, 1989.
33. Hanson, quoted in Millet and Secombe, p. 31.
34. Quoted in McClintock, Imperial Leather, p. 381.
35. Susan Sheridan, Along the Faultlines: Sex, Race and Nation in Australian Women's Writing 1880s-1930s. (Allen & Unwin) St Leonards, 1995.
36. David Leser, 'Fear and Loathing', p. 20.
37. Cochrane, p. 11.
38. Fagan, 'The Parochial', p. 23.
39. Marilyn Lake, 'Pauline Hanson: Virago in Parliament, Viagra in the Bush' in Two Nations, pp. 114-22.
40. Lake, 'Pauline Hanson', p. 116.
41. Lake, 'Pauline Hanson' p. 115.
42. See Rosi Braidotti, Patterns of Dissonance (Polity) Cambridge, 1991. See also 'The Problem of "the Feminine" in contemporary French philosophy: Foucault and Irigaray' in Terry Threadgold and Anne Cranny Francis (eds), Feminine, Masculine and Representation (Allen & Unwin) Sydney, 1990.
43. See Rosi Braidotti, Patterns of Dissonance (Polity) Cambridge, 1991. See also 'The Problem of "the Feminine" in contemporary French philosophy: Foucault and Irigaray' in Terry Threadgold and Anne Cranny Francis (eds), Feminine, Masculine and Representation (Allen & Unwin) Sydney, 1990.
44. Alice Jardine, Gynesis: Configurations of Woman and Modernity (Cornell University Press) New York, 1985.
45. Jardine, Gynesis, p. 25.
46. Braidotti is particularly insistent on this point; 'the thought, speech and actual agency of these same "others", namely feminist theory and practice, do play an important role in bringing about this "crisis". If feminist thought is clearly situated in the field of modernity, in the critique of the subject, it is because women's struggles are one of the facets of the same "crisis", and act as one of its deepest theoretical and political rhizomes or roots', Patterns of Dissonance, p. 11.
47. In je tu nous: Towards a Culture of Difference, Irigaray describes the feminisation of philosophy and asks whether or not the (male) writers who 'are explicitly interested in female identity, sometimes in their own identity as feminine or women ... [are] looking for a way of divesting themselves of those powers?' Her answer is: 'I hope so.' (Routledge) New York, 1993, pp. 55-6.
48. Michael Millet and Mike Secombe, 'The Power of Pauline Hanson', Sydney Morning Herald, 12 October 1996, pp. 31-4.
49. Robert Manne 'It's a Shame; the Perils of Pauline', Australian, 4 November 1996, p. 13.
50. Judith Brett, 'Representing', p. 27.
51. Philip Adams, 'Pauline', p. 20.
52. Michelle Grattan, 'Pauline', p. 76.
53. Gareth Evans, quoted in 'A United Front: What our Leaders Say', Australian, 3 October 1996.
54. Evans' rhetoric echoes Nietzsche's famous description of women's increasing claims to independence as contributing to the 'uglification' of Europe. 'Our Virtues', para. 232, in Beyond Good and Evil.
55. Mark Davis Gangland: Cultural Elites and the New Generationalism (Allen & Unwin) St Leonards, 1997, p. 69.
56. Jacqueline Rose, Why War? Psychoanalysis, Politics, and the Return to Melanie Klein (Blackwell) Cambridge, 1993.
57. Manne, 'It's a Shame', p. 13.
58. Linda Kintz, Between Jesus and the Market; the Emotions that Matter in Right Wing America (Duke University Press) London, 1997, p. 10.
59. See Jenny Sharpe's Allegories of Empire: the Figure of Woman in the Colonial Text. (University of Minnesota Press) Minneapolis, 1993, for her examination of the ways in which colonial white women in India were represented as either the rose or ruin of empire. Margaret Jolly, 'Colonizing Women: the Maternal Body and Empire' in Sneja Gunew and Anna Yeatman (eds), Feminism and the Politics of Difference (Allen & Unwin) St Leonards, 1993, pp. 103-27, also makes the point that 'colonising women' are often stereotyped as being more racist than white men because they were interested in instituting racial segregation so as to control the sexual habits of their husbands.
60. See Jenny Sharpe's Allegories of Empire: the Figure of Woman in the Colonial Text. (University of Minnesota Press) Minneapolis, 1993, for her examination of the ways in which colonial white women in India were represented as either the rose or ruin of empire. Margaret Jolly, 'Colonizing Women: the Maternal Body and Empire' in Sneja Gunew and Anna Yeatman (eds), Feminism and the Politics of Difference (Allen & Unwin) St Leonards, 1993, pp. 103-27, also makes the point that 'colonising women' are often stereotyped as being more racist than white men because they were interested in instituting racial segregation so as to control the sexual habits of their husbands.