- Title
- On the doorstep: Aboriginal domestic service as a 'Contact Zone'
- Creator
- Haskins, Victoria
- Relation
- Australian Feminist Studies Vol. 16, Issue 34, p. 13-25
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08164640120038881
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2001
- Description
- The following article documents the background to the committal of ‘Jane King’, an Aboriginal domestic worker in Sydney, New South Wales, to a mental asylum in 1942. My reconstruction of events surrounding this specific story is intended to highlight the significance of the domestic service site as the locale for a removal policy aimed not at the ‘assimilation’ of Aboriginal women into mainstream Australian society, as is often assumed, but rather at their containment, incarceration, and consignment to oblivion.
- Subject
- Jane King; Aboriginal women; assimilation; Aborigines Protection Board
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/929963
- Identifier
- uon:10721
- Identifier
- ISSN:0816-4649
- Language
- eng
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