By Peggy Brock
ISBN-10: 1864489472
ISBN-13: 9781864489477
The controversy approximately 'secret women's enterprise' within the Hindmarsh Island Bridge clash has introduced this factor to the eye of most people. How can Aboriginal ladies assert their claims whereas retaining, by way of final silent, their culturally delicate wisdom? How can they hinder their phrases and silences being misrepresented?
Words and Silences explores the obstacles confronting Aboriginal ladies attempting to shield their land rights. The participants to this quantity supply insights into the intricacies of Aboriginal social and cultural wisdom, and introduce the reader to varied understandings of the way the gendered nature of Aboriginal land possession provides complexity to the cross-cultural come upon. In vigorous and interesting prose they record the continuing struggles of Aboriginal girls throughout Australia, who're scuffling with to make sure they obtain due popularity in their rights in land.
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Words and Silences: Aboriginal Women, Politics and Land by Peggy Brock
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