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Tracing a Female Mind in Late Nineteenth Century Australia: Rose Selwyn
- Source :
- Genealogy, Vol 7, Iss 2, p 30 (2023)
- Publication Year :
- 2023
- Publisher :
- MDPI AG, 2023.
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Abstract
- Rose Selwyn (1824–1905) was a first wave Australian feminist and public speaker. The poetry, art, and scraps of writing Rose left in her archive allow the reader to piece together an intellectual history, a genealogy of the making of self. Rose attained her way of being through several contemporary influences—the mysticism of Tractarianism, a concern with death and its meanings, an interest in the literary edges of the world, a concern with the suffering body, and a passion for women and a woman-centred world. From these tangled contemporary concerns, she made a feminism for all non-Aboriginal women apparent in her speeches. Her role as a colonising woman in a violent landscape created a complex relationship with Aboriginal people where she may be seen to be criticising her elite landholding (squatter) peers and introducing concepts such as an Aboriginal parliament.
- Subjects :
- colonization
feminism
tractarian
women
poetry
intellectual life
Social Sciences
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 23135778
- Volume :
- 7
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Genealogy
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.febdd8d74d0429a8c0da69cef7c0ba7
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy7020030