TY - JOUR
AU - Trask, Haunani-Kay.
AB - 474 the contemporary pacific • fall 2003 women” (xxi). As an example, Talkin’ Up to the White Woman: Moreton-Robinson reveals how the Indigenous Women and Feminism, by invisibility of Indigenous peoples in Aileen Moreton-Robinson. St Lucia, Australia is a direct result of the insti- qld: University of Queensland Press, tutionalization of whiteness, which, 2002. Originally printed in 2000. by naturalizing the presence of white isbn 0 –7022– 3134–7; xxv + 234 foreigners on aboriginal lands, erases pages, notes, bibliography, index. the history of European genocide a$22.00. committed against Aboriginal peoples. Dispossession, domination, and In her introduction to Talkin’ Up to domestication were the three prongs the White Woman, Aileen Moreton- of the first stage of colonization, Robinson explains that her book is which included, almost as a by-prod- “an extension of my communal uct, the most vicious kinds of murder, responsibilities” because she is and psychopathic mutilations such as “representing an Indigenous stand- castration and the uses of men’s scro- point within Australian feminism” tums for tobacco pouches and infants’ (xvi). This refusal to abide by the heads for polo balls. academic fiction of an uninvolved The clearing of the continent for researcher gives notice that a refresh- European 
TI - Talkin' Up to the White Woman: Indigenous Women and Feminism (review)
JF - The Contemporary Pacific
DA - 2003-08-07
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/university-of-hawai-i-press/talkin-apos-up-to-the-white-woman-indigenous-women-and-feminism-review-th5Jya3dCE
SP - 474
EP - 475
VL - 15
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -