Introduction

NOTES

1. See Lyndall Ryan, The Aboriginal Tasmanians, 2nd. ed. (Sydney: Alien and Unwin, 1996), 191, 209.

2. Jane E. Simonsen, Making Home Work: Domesticity and Native American Assimilation in the American West, 1860-1919 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006); Margaret Strobel and Nupur Chaudhuri, Western Women and Imperialism: Complicity and Resistance (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992); Vron Ware, Beyond the Pale: White Women, Racism and History (London: Verso, 1992); Antoinette Burton, Burdens of History: British Feminists, Indian Women, and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994); Adele Perry, On the Edge of Empire: Gender, Race, and the Making of British Columbia, 1849-1871 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001); Kumari Jayawardena, The White Woman's Other Burden: Western Women and South Asia During British Rule (New York and London: Routledge, 1995); Helen Callaway, Gender, Culture and Empire: European Women in Colonial Nigeria (London: Macmillan, 3987); Peggy Pascoe, Relations of Rescue: The Search for Female Moral Authority in the American West, 1874-1939 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990).

3. This cover image, virtually iconic in Australian historiography, was taken just a few years after these women were transferred from the Flinders Island settlement Wybalenna ("black man's houses") to the Oyster Cove Aboriginal Station on mainland Tasmania. The "Black War" refers to the period of colonial martial law in Tasmania (then Van Diemen's Land) between November 1828 and January 1832, during which it has been estimated that fewer than fifty of the two hundred Aborigines in the settled districts in 1828 were left to surrender to the "Conciliator" George Augustus Robinson. For more on the Black War and the fate of Tasmania's Aboriginal population, see Ryan, The Aboriginal Tasmanians, especially 101-123; Ann McGrath, "Tasmania I," in Contested Ground: Australian Aborigines and the British Crown, ed. Ann McGrath (St. Leonards, NSW, Australia: Alien and Unwin, 1995).

4. Mary Louise Pratt, Travel Writing and Transculturation (London: Routledge, 1992).

5. Ann Laura Stoler, "Tense and Tender Ties: The Politics of Comparison in North American History and (Post) Colonial Studies," in Haunted by Empire: Geographies of Intimacy in North American History, ed, Ann Laura Stoler (Durham; Duke University Press, 2006), 24.

6. Ann Laura Stoler, Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002); Margaret Jolly and Martha Macintyre, eds., Family and Gender in the Pacific: Domestic Contradictions and the Colonial Impact (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989); Antoinette Burton, Dwelling in the Archive: Women Writing House, Home and History in Late Colonial India (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003); Anne McClintock, Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest (London: Routledge, 1995); Catherine Hall, Civilising Subjects: Colony and Metropole in the English Imagination, 1830-1867 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002).