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This article forms the basis for a chapter in Dalziell's later work Settler Romances and the Australian Girl. It examines the role of the 'white woman' in colonial contexts and its use for Western middle-class feminists today. It's focus is on late 19th- and early 20th-century figures of the sympathetic white woman and Australian girl and the implications their representation has for recent studies on white women and British colonialism, and for feminist cross-cultural engagement.
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Settler Romances and the Australian Girl
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UWA Publishing
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2004
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Incisive readings of popular late 19th and early 20th century settler adventure romance unmask a deep-seated anxiety about the stability of concepts of whiteness and femininity in colonial Australia.In the acknowledgements, the author lists three of her earlier articles which first outlined key elements of the argument presented in this work.
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