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‘To exercise a beneficial influence over a man’ : marriage, gender and the native institutions in early colonial Australia

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posted on 2008-01-01, 00:00 authored by Joanna CruickshankJoanna Cruickshank
This chapter examines understandings of marriage among missionaries and humanitarians connected with two early colonial ‘Native Institutions’. A comparison of the Parramatta Native Institution in New South Wales and the Albany Native Institution in Western Australia demonstrates that concerns about marriage were central in discussions about the formation and maintenance of these Institutions. Both of these Institutions were established and supported by British evangelicals, who had brought with them to Australia powerful assumptions about gender roles, particularly in
marriage. These assumptions influenced their decisions regarding the children who resided in the Native Institutions. Within specific colonial contexts, however, the assumptions of humanitarians and missionaries did not remain static, and debates over the futures of the Aboriginal children they sought to educate reveal complex and shifting hierarchies of race, gender and class.

History

Title of book

Evangelists of empire? : missionaries in colonial history

Series

History Conference and Seminar series ; 18

Chapter number

10

Pagination

115 - 124

Publisher

eScholarship Research Centre in collaboration with the School of Historical Studies

Place of publication

Melbourne, Vic.

ISBN-13

9780734039682

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Language

eng

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Reproduced with the specific permission of the copyright owner.

Publication classification

B1.1 Book chapter

Copyright notice

2008, University of Melbourne, eScholarship Research Centre in collaboration with the School of History

Extent

19

Editor/Contributor(s)

A Barry

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