White women, Aboriginal missions, and Australian settler governments : maternal contradictions /

White women, Aboriginal missions, and Australian settler governments : maternal contradictions /

In White Women, Aboriginal Missions and Australian Settler Governments , Joanna Cruickshank and Patricia Grimshaw provide the first detailed study of the central part that white women played in missions to Aboriginal people in Australia. As Aboriginal people experienced violent dispossession through...

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Main Author: Cruickshank, Joanna, 1974- (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2019.

Series: Studies in Christian Mission 56.
Studies in Christian Mission Online, Supplement 2019, ISBN: 9789004390942.

Subjects:

Aboriginal Australians > Missions.
Women missionaries > Australia.

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Call Number: BV3650

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright page
  • Acknowledgments
  • Maps
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Mission and Marriage in Early Colonial Contexts
  • Mothers and Daughters in Victoria
  • Wives, Widows and Sisters in Far North Queensland
  • Single White Women and Faith Missions
  • Beyond Protection in Southeastern Australia
  • Teachers and Nurses in the North
  • Conclusion
  • Back Matter
  • Bibliography
  • Index.