Talkin' Up to the White Woman

Talkin' Up to the White Woman: Aboriginal Women and Feminism | Aileen Moreton-Robinson

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It‘s been a long time since I have read anything ‘academic‘. I feel like my brain has had a work out! I loved it! Aileen Moreton-Robinson lays bare the issue of white race privilege and the subject position of white middle class woman in the Australian feminist movement and it‘s negative impact on Indigenous women. Fascinating reading! This book has ruffled a few feathers since it was published 20 years ago. And it is still relevant.

MrsMalaprop I read this a year or so ago. Great review! 3y

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MrsMalaprop

Talkin' Up to the White Woman: Aboriginal Women and Feminism | Aileen Moreton-Robinson

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This book shines a light on white power and privilege in Australian feminism. First published 20 years ago, the author might have hoped we‘d have made more progress by now.

Making people aware of their privilege, understand it & then give some of their power up is fraught.

For my part I am trying to read, watch & listen more. As I say to my white privileged husband,
“Just shut up & listen”.
I need to keep taking my own advice. 🤐

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MrsMalaprop

Talkin' Up to the White Woman: Aboriginal Women and Feminism | Aileen Moreton-Robinson

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MrsMalaprop

Talkin' Up to the White Woman: Aboriginal Women and Feminism | Aileen Moreton-Robinson

“White women civilised, while white men brutalised”.

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MrsMalaprop

Talkin' Up to the White Woman: Aboriginal Women and Feminism | Aileen Moreton-Robinson

CarolynM And nearly 50 years later most of the rest of the country still hasn't caught up with Gough☹️ 4y

Freespirit Gough was a great mind.. 4y

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MrsMalaprop

Talkin' Up to the White Woman: Aboriginal Women and Feminism | Aileen Moreton-Robinson

Slowly working my way through this one. Am finding the academic writing challenging, but I will persist.

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Love your nails 💙💙 4y

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MrsMalaprop

Talkin' Up to the White Woman: Aboriginal Women and Feminism | Aileen Moreton-Robinson

#truth 😢

Think I‘m going to have to be selective with my quotes from this seminal work, or I‘ll be clogging up Litsy.

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MrsMalaprop

Talkin' Up to the White Woman: Aboriginal Women and Feminism | Aileen Moreton-Robinson

#truthtelling #blackaustralianwriting

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MrsMalaprop

Talkin' Up to the White Woman: Aboriginal Women and Feminism | Aileen Moreton-Robinson

#Upnext I saw this new 20th anniversary edition in my favourite book shop. As someone who considers herself to be a fairly ‘rabid‘ 😂 white feminist ✊, and reasonably well informed on Australian indigenous issues, I am looking forward to learning some things from this book.

Hope I can handle it 😳 and that I can actually understand it, given its academic nature.

Freespirit Look forward to your review! 4y

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Talkin' Up to the White Woman: Aboriginal Women and Feminism | Aileen Moreton-Robinson

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Talkin' Up to the White Woman: Aboriginal Women and Feminism | Aileen Moreton-Robinson

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I‘m sure this book is terrific, but I am struggling to penetrate the dense academic prose. I‘m afraid this one‘s not for me. I suspect it would be a great addition to a women‘s studies class.

tournevis Academic prose is a *huge* problem for Academia. Not only is it bad writing, it prevents us from spreading knowledge. I work really hard to make my prose legible to all, even to the proverbial "Aunt Sally". 7y

Hooked_on_books @tournevis I think it‘s a “know your audience” problem. You‘re aware of your audience of wider readers, but not all writers seem to want to write to that audience. I‘m actually really bummed about this book—I‘d love to be able to compare an Australia-based women‘s studies/race relations book to the ones I have read from US authors. 7y

tournevis @Hooked_on_books In my experience, there are two very different kinds of those books in the US. Yoy have the straight, really dry and dense academic books and you have the deep but legible broader public but still academically informed book. The market is large enough to sustain that. Other Anglophone countries can't. 7y

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