Childbearers as rights-bearers: Feminist discourse on the rights of aboriginal and non-aboriginal mothers in Australia, 1920-50

Women's History Review

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 347-363

  Lake, Marilyn ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; CUSTODY; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FEMINISM; HISTORY; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; INFANT; LEGAL ASPECT; MOTHER; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

AUSTRALIA; CHILD; CHILD CUSTODY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMINISM; HISTORIOGRAPHY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MOTHERS; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; WOMEN; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

EID: 34247290097     PISSN: 09612025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09612029900200205     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Report of the Royal Commission appointed to Investigate, Report and Advise upon Matters In Relation to the Condition and Treatment of Aborigines, Western Australian Parliamentary Papers, 1935, p. 576.
2. Report and Advise upon Matters In Relation to the Condition and Treatment of Aborigines, Western Australian Parliamentary Papers, Ibid., p. 574.
3. For a more detailed account of this campaign see Fiona Paisley (1993) 'Don't Tell England!' Women of empire campaign to change Aboriginal policy in Australia between the wars, Lilith: a feminist history journal, 8, pp. 139-152;
4. Fiona Paisley (1995) Feminist challenges to White Australia 1900-1930s, in Diane Kirkby (Ed.) Sex, Power and Justice: historical perspectives on law in Australia, pp. 252-269 (Melbourne: Oxford University Press);
5. Marilyn Lake (1993) Colonised and colonising: the white Australian feminist subject, Women's History Review, 2, pp. 377-386;
6. Marilyn Lake (1994) Between old worlds and new: feminist citizenship, nation and race, the destabilisation of identity, in Caroline Daley & Melanie Nolan (Eds) Suffrage and Beyond: international feminist perspectives, pp. 277-294 (Auckland and Sydney: Auckland University Press and Pluto Press);
7. Marilyn Lake (1998) Feminism and the gendered politics of anti-racism, Australia 1927-1957: from maternal protectionism to leftist assimilationism, Australian Historical Studies, 29, pp. 91-108.
8. Quoted in Marilyn Lake & Joy Damousi (Eds) (1995) Freedom Bound 2: documents on women in modern Australia, pp. 60-63 (Sydney: Allen & Unwin).
9. Marilyn Lake (1993) 'A revolution in the family': the challenge and contradictions of maternal feminism, in Seth Koven & Sonya Michel (Eds) Mothers of a New World: maternalist politics and the origins of welfare states, pp. 378-395 (New York: Routledge);
10. Marilyn Lake (1996) Feminist history as national history: writing the political history of women, Australian Historical Studies, 27, pp. 154-169.
11. Dawn, 12 February 1921;
12. West Australian, 12 February 1921.
13. Joan Wallach Scott (1996) Only Paradoxes to Offer: French feminists and the Rights of Man, pp. 70-79 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press).
14. Heather Radi (1979) Whose Child?, in Judy Mackinolty & Heather Radi (Eds) In Pursuit of Justice: Australian women and the law 1788-1979, p. 26 (Sydney: Hale & Iremonger).
15. Patricia Grimshaw, Marilyn Lake, Ann McGrath & Marian Quartly (1996 reprint edition) Creating a Nation, ch. 12 (Ringwood: Penguin);
16. Anna Haebich (1992) For Their Own Good: Aborigines and government in the south-west of Western Australia 1900-1940 (Perth: University of Western Australia Press).
17. Grimshaw et al, Creating a Nation, p. 206.
18. See Marilyn Lake (1992) The independence of women and the brotherhood of man, Labour History, 63, pp. 1-24.
19. Marilyn Lake, Labour History, Ibid., p. 19.
20. Daily Telegraph, 25 February 1904, United Associations of Women papers, Ml MSS 2160/ Y791.
21. Millicent Preston Stanley (1934) Whose Child?, A Play in 4 Acts, Prompt Copy, Millicent Preston Stanley Vaughan papers, Australian National Library, MS 9062, Box 1.
22. Radi, Whose Child?, p. 127.
23. Mary Bennett (n.d.) 'The Injustice of Removing Native Children from their Parents by Executive Order: The Injustice of Deporting Innocent People from their District by Executive Order: a Suggestion that Judicial Machinery be Substituted', Anti-Slavery Society papers, Rhodes House, MSS Br. Emp. S22, G700.
24. Mary Bennett (n.d.) 'Native Children Under the Native Administration Act of Western Australia', ibid.
25. Australian Woman's Charter 1946-49 (Sydney).
26. Quoted in Bennett, 'The Injustice of Removing Native Children'.
27. Constance Cooke papers, South Australian Archives, GRG 55/ 22/ 80.
28. On 'human rights' see Hilary Charlesworth (1994) What are Women's International Human Rights?' in Rebecca J. Cook (Ed.) Human Rights of Woman: national and international perspectives, pp. 58-84 (Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press).
29. Pat O'Shane (1976) Is there any relevance in the women's movement for Aboriginal women? Refractory Girl, 12, pp. 31-34.