Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0450600

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0450600

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Aboriginal Femininity and Modern Identity: Gender and Race in the Late Colonial Visual Scene. The project is the first sustained cultural history of Aboriginal femininity in Australian from 1870-1967. It will draw on diverse forms of modern visual culture: painting, black and white drawing, mass commodity spectacle, film and photography, to investigate six modes of production of Aboriginal feminine visibility: the 'primitive' woman in Western exhibiting practices such as colonial museums: the perceived failure of 'Mission Mary' to appear modern; the relation of Aboriginal femininity to imported forms of exoticism; the fetishism of Indigenous women; girl piccaninny kitsch in domestic and tourist ornaments; and the entrance of public Aboriginal women and celebrities into modernity.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 16-07-2004

End Date: 15-07-2008

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $220,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Communication And Media Studies | Cultural Studies | Aboriginal Cultural Studies | Gender Specific Studies

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

The creative arts |

Other Keywords

Aboriginal Cultural Studies | Communication And Media Studies | Cultural Studies | Gender Specific Studies | The creative arts | Understanding Australia'S Past | Visual Communication

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