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The Hidden Whiteness Of Australian Law: A Case Study, Janet Ransley, Elena Marchetti
The Hidden Whiteness Of Australian Law: A Case Study, Janet Ransley, Elena Marchetti
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
Indigenous people face procedural barriers in bringing actions in the Australian legal system, such as the need to frame their claims within Western cultural constructs of individual actions and economic loss, and to transform their stories into the written evidence privileged by courts. But an even greater barrier is the hidden Whiteness of Australian courts, which places Indigenous people as the 'Other' who must either change their claims to conform with 'our' requirements, or be rejected. The case study explored in this article shows how this Whiteness exhibits itself in procedural requirements; in its racialising of Indigenous people, their claims …
Engendering Scientific Pursuits: Australian Women And Science, 1880-1960, Jane L. Carey
Engendering Scientific Pursuits: Australian Women And Science, 1880-1960, Jane L. Carey
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
Science is generally perceived as one of the most strongly gendered spheres within modern society. The perceived 'masculine' construction of scientific practice has been the focus of numerous overseas studies of women's historic absence from science. However, the experiences of Australian women scientists, in many ways, stand in stark contrast to this construction. Existing historical accounts of Australian science reveal little about women's participation in the field. It is perhaps surprising to find that, during the first half of this century, women were in fact studying science in quite high numbers. Indeed, few seem to have felt they were doing …