Victoria Haskins

Kama Maclean on Australia and India under Empire British India, White Australia: Overseas Indians, Intercolonial Relations and the Empire , by Kama Maclean, Sydney, UNSW Press, 2020, xii + 320 pp., $39.99. ISBN 9781742236216, Publisher’s website www.newsouthbooks.com.au

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 02-01-2021

DOI: 10.1080/14490854.2021.1880286

One bright spot

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Date: 2005

DOI: 10.1057/9780230510593

‘The privilege of employing natives’: the Quan Sing affair and Chinese-Aboriginal employment in Western Australia, 1889–1934

Publisher: ANU Press

Date: 11-2011

DOI: 10.22459/AH.35.2011.07

Sex, race and power - Aboriginal men and white women in Australian history

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 10-2005

DOI: 10.1080/10314610508682920

She learnt her lessons well

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Date: 2005

DOI: 10.1057/9780230510593_21

Women's Activism

Publisher: Routledge

Date: 12-12-2012

DOI: 10.4324/9780203081143

Creating the Houseboy: Early Asian Influences on European Cultures of Domestic Service

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Date: 2019

DOI: 10.5040/9781350056756.CH-001

Brokering Servitude: Migration and the Politics of Domestic Labor during the Long Nineteenth Century

Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Date: 07-2019

DOI: 10.1017/S1537781419000124

The Good Country: The Djadja Wurrung, the Settlers and the Protectors

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 03-04-2018

DOI: 10.1080/1031461X.2018.1454282

Indigenous Houseboys and Asian Ideals in Darwin and Suva

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Date: 2019

DOI: 10.5040/9781350056756.CH-002

On the doorstep: Aboriginal domestic service as a 'Contact zone'

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 03-2001

DOI: 10.1080/08164640120038881

Steamship Stewards: Encountering Asia on the High Seas

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Date: 2019

DOI: 10.5040/9781350056756.CH-005

The Indian School on Magnolia Avenue: Voices and Images from Sherman Institute

Publisher: University of California Press

Date: 02-2014

DOI: 10.1525/PHR.2014.83.1.150

From India to Fiji: Cultures of Service in the Grand Hotel

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Date: 2019

DOI: 10.5040/9781350056756.CH-006

Intercultural Influences on American Domesticity in the Philippines

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Date: 2019

DOI: 10.5040/9781350056756.CH-003

Domesticating Colonizers: Domesticity, Indigenous Domestic Labor, and the Modern Settler Colonial Nation

Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)

Date: 10-2019

DOI: 10.1093/AHR/RHZ647

Abstract: The placement of Indigenous girls and young women in white homes to work as servants was a key strategy of official policy and practice in both the United States and Australia. Between the 1880s and the Second World War, under the outing programs in the U.S. and various apprenticeship and indenturing schemes in Australia, the state regulated and constructed relations between Indigenous and white women in the home. Such state intervention not only helped to define domesticity in a modern world, but was integral to the formation of the modern settler colonial nation in its claims to civilizing authority in the United States and Australia. In the context of settler colonialism, domesticity was not hegemonic in this period, but rather was precarious and uncertain. By prescribing and demanding from employers demonstrations of domesticity, the state was engaged in perfecting white women as well as Indigenous women, the latter as the colonized, to be domesticated, and the former as the colonizer, to domesticate.

Colonial Patriarchy and Representations of Masculinity in Photographs of Domestic Workers

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Date: 2019

DOI: 10.5040/9781350056756.CH-004

Exemption: A Gendered History

Publisher: Wiley

Date: 03-2023

DOI: 10.1111/AJPH.12868

Abstract: Diverse questions might be contemplated once we consider the gender implications and impacts of Aboriginal exemption policies. The article traces such questions in relation to a series of distinct episodes in the history of exemption. The first of these focuses on postwar New South Wales, where marital status was core to the application process from the point of its introduction, and the system built upon older policies of ‘training’ Aboriginal girls as servants. The second moment, moving back in time, discusses a petition for collective exemption for a group of women domestic workers in Broome, Western Australia, that was presented to a government enquiry in 1934. The third concerns the quest for release from government controls by several domestic workers brought to Adelaide in South Australia, from the Northern Territory, in the late 1920s. Finally, the article reflects upon the efforts of young women placed in service in early‐twentieth‐century Brisbane, Queensland, to secure exemptions, and the responses of the authorities. While exemption policies may have been designed to impose Anglo‐Australian gender norms of female dependence, Aboriginal women who worked in service consistently subverted these aims, by using the discourses of domesticity to challenge and resist the authorities' power.

Labour and Political Activism by Chinese and Vietnamese Male Domestic Workers

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Date: 2019

DOI: 10.5040/9781350056756.CH-007

Testimonies of affect: Native American women’s histories of violence on California’s Pacific North Coast

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 26-06-2022

DOI: 10.1080/09612025.2022.2090710

Women's Work and Cross-Cultural Relationships on Two Female Frontiers: Eliza Fraser and Barbara Thompson in Colonial Queensland, 1836-1849

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Date: 2018

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-76231-9_7

Australian nurses and the 1918 Deolali inquiry: Transcolonial racial and gendered anxieties in a British Indian War Hospital

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Date: 2017

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-51520-5_5

Introduction

Publisher: JSTOR

Date: 2007

DOI: 10.1353/FRO.2007.0026

Domestic service and frontier feminism - The call for a woman visitor to half-caste girls and women in domestic service, Adelaide, 1925-1928

Publisher: JSTOR

Date: 2007

DOI: 10.1353/FRO.2007.0027

The girl who wanted to go to war: female patriotism and gender construction in Australia’s Great War

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 03-04-2017

DOI: 10.1080/14490854.2017.1319737

‘A better chance’? – sexual abuse and the apprenticeship of Aboriginal girls under the NSW Aborigines Protection Board

Publisher: ANU Press

Date: 2011

DOI: 10.22459/AH.28.2011.02

The matter of wages does not seem to be material: Native American domestic workers' wages under the outing system in the United States, 1880s-1930s

Publisher: BRILL

Date: 2015

DOI: 10.1163/9789004280144_016

From the Centre to the City: modernity, mobility and mixed-descent Aboriginal domestic workers from central Australia

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 02-2009

DOI: 10.1080/09612020802608108

Introduction: Regulation and Domestic Service in Colonial Histories

Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Date: 18-02-2022

DOI: 10.1017/S0020859022000074

Abstract: This essay introduces the Special Theme on regulation and domestic service in colonial societies. It provides a brief overview of the key themes of domestic service and regulation in the history of colonial states, and reflects upon the ways in which the colonial past is deployed in contemporary calls for the regulation of domestic work by the state, to secure the rights and protections of present-day workers as modern, free subjects. We note that, while much more work needs to done on this subject, current scholarship suggests that the status of the domestic worker and the extent of regulation in colonial contexts was historically unclear and often ambivalent. The three articles that constitute the Special Theme are then discussed in turn, to highlight the important insights, both empirical and theoretical, they offer to our deeper understanding of this complex history.

She loves pretty things and knows how to wear them

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Date: 2005

DOI: 10.1057/9780230510593_9

If I am coming back to you all again

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Date: 2005

DOI: 10.1057/9780230510593_4

It makes me rage

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Date: 2005

DOI: 10.1057/9780230510593_13

Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Anglo-World, 1783-1939

Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)

Date: 10-2011

DOI: 10.2307/WESTHISTQUAR.42.3.0379

THE CHAPLAIN'S WIFE AND THE NATIVE GIRL: Re-envisaging a Cross-cultural Female Relationship in the Contact Zone

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 09-2012

DOI: 10.1080/08164649.2012.700256

Just ordinary justice

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Date: 2005

DOI: 10.1057/9780230510593_15

You must not go against these people

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Date: 2005

DOI: 10.1057/9780230510593_10

Feminist Research Ethics and First Nations Women’s Life Narratives: A Conversation

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 03-04-2021

DOI: 10.1080/08164649.2021.2004537

'Could-you-see-to-the-return-of-my-daughter' - Fathers and daughters under the New South Wales Aborigines Protection Board child removal policy

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 04-2003

DOI: 10.1080/10314610308596239

‘Down in the gully & just outside the garden walk’: White Women and the Sexual Abuse of Aboriginal Women on a Colonial Australian Frontier

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 2013

DOI: 10.1080/14490854.2012.11668444

Strike Strike, We Strike: Making Aboriginal Domestic Labor Visible in the Pilbara Pastoral Workers' Strike, Western Australia, 1946-1952

Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Date: 2015

DOI: 10.1017/S0147547915000228

Abstract: Between 1946 and 1949, the Pilbara Walk-Off of Aboriginal pastoral workers in the Northwest of Western Australia came to symbolize the demand for Aboriginal rights and independence and is now recognized as a key event in the Aboriginal land rights movement. While the Pilbara strike has received attention from many historians, the involvement of Aboriginal domestic workers in the action has not. But the strike provided an unprecedented opportunity for Aboriginal domestic workers to mobilize and organize. This article examines the historical role and impact of Aboriginal domestic workers in the Pilbara strike. Drawing upon Aboriginal oral histories and correspondence of employers at the time as well as official records, this study argues that the involvement of the domestic workers made Aboriginal domestic labor visible, and in doing so challenged the racial and gender foundations of hierarchy and power that underpinned the pastoral economy of colonization.

Joanna Cruickshank and Patricia Grimshaw: White Women, Aboriginal Missions and Australian Settler Governments: Maternal Contradictions, By Series: Studies in Christian Mission, 56. Leiden and Boston, MA: Koninklijke Brill NV, 2019; pp. ix + 207

Publisher: Wiley

Date: 20-04-2021

DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.12751

Colonialism and Male Domestic Service across the Asia Pacific

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Date: 2019

DOI: 10.5040/9781350056756

Beth Dean and the Transnational Circulation of Aboriginal Dance Culture: Gender, Authority and C. P. Mountford

Publisher: ANU Press

Date: 18-12-2014

DOI: 10.22459/CC.12.2014.02

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Location: Australia

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