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'Conor’s Skin Deep offers to critique the textual descriptions and imagery of Aboriginal women found in the colonial archives, and in particular those descriptions and images that were circulated widely through the increasingly industrialised print media. Conor states that the central argument of her book is that ‘colonial racism and gender relations hinge in particular ways and depended on the facility of print to reiterate and thereby entrench meaning as truth’ (38). For Conor the ‘reiteration of those unverified tropes’ (37) that elsewhere she describes as white ‘lies’ (27, 363, 368) mostly produced by ‘white men’ (27), ‘rationalise the colonial project’ (37). Conor seeks to highlight the appalling racism and misogyny evident in many of the representations she scrutinises, and in doing so she hopes to intervene in and disrupt their enduring legacy.' (Introduction)
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Skin Deep : Settler Impressions of Aboriginal Women, by Liz Conor
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