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Title: On the doorstep: Aboriginal domestic service as a 'Contact Zone'
Author/Creator: Haskins, Victoria
Description: The following article documents the background to the committal of ‘Jane King’, an Aboriginal domestic worker in Sydney, New South Wales, to a mental asylum in 1942. My reconstruction of events surrounding this specific story is intended to highlight the significance of the domestic service site as the locale for a removal policy aimed not at the ‘assimilation’ of Aboriginal women into mainstream Australian society, as is often assumed, but rather at their containment, incarceration, and consignment to oblivion.
Relation: Australian Feminist Studies Vol. 16, Issue 34, p. 13-25
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08164640120038881
Date: 2001
Publisher: Routledge
Keyword(s): Jane King; Aboriginal women; assimilation; Aborigines Protection Board
Resource Type: journal article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/929963
Identifier: ISSN:0816-4649
Language: eng

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