Indigenous Australian women's colonial sexual intimacies: positioning indigenous women's agency.
Cult Health Sex
; 20(4): 397-410, 2018 04.
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ABSTRACT
Colonialist views of Indigenous bodies and sexualities continue to affect Indigenous peoples worldwide. For Indigenous Australians, this burden has resulted in repression and oppression of power, sex and desire. Focusing on the sexual intimacies of Indigenous Australian women, this paper provides an account of the dominant Australian historical discourses, finding that Indigenous women were viewed as exotic, erotic, something to be desired, yet simultaneously something to be feared. Our sexualities were described as savage, promiscuous and primitive and we were often viewed as prostitutes with our voices and views constrained by patriarchal and imperial regimes of power. But within this context, Indigenous women fought back through both individual and collective acts of agency. This paper demonstrates how Indigenous Australian women's agency not as a new phenomenon but rather as a position that disrupts the popular discourses of exploitation and victimhood that have been persistently perpetrated against Indigenous women.
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Assunto principal:
Comportamento Sexual
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Mulheres
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Colonialismo
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Havaiano Nativo ou Outro Ilhéu do Pacífico
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Female
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Humans
País/Região como assunto:
Oceania
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En
Revista:
Cult Health Sex
Ano de publicação:
2018
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Article