Tracing a Female Mind in Late Nineteenth Century Australia: Rose Selwyn
Abstrak
Rose Selwyn (1824–1905) was a first wave Australian feminist and public speaker. The poetry, art, and scraps of writing Rose left in her archive allow the reader to piece together an intellectual history, a genealogy of the making of self. Rose attained her way of being through several contemporary influences—the mysticism of Tractarianism, a concern with death and its meanings, an interest in the literary edges of the world, a concern with the suffering body, and a passion for women and a woman-centred world. From these tangled contemporary concerns, she made a feminism for all non-Aboriginal women apparent in her speeches. Her role as a colonising woman in a violent landscape created a complex relationship with Aboriginal people where she may be seen to be criticising her elite landholding (squatter) peers and introducing concepts such as an Aboriginal parliament.
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Paula Jane Byrne
Akses Cepat
- Tahun Terbit
- 2023
- Bahasa
- en
- Sumber Database
- CrossRef
- DOI
- 10.3390/genealogy7020030
- Akses
- Open Access ✓