Introduction

VICTORIA HASKINS is a lecturer in Australian history at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, and a former curator of Australian social history at the National Museum of Australia. She has published widely on colonialism, gender, and race relations history in Australia, including the book One Bright Spot (Palgrave, 2005) and an edited collection with Anna Cole and Fiona Paisley, titled Uncommon Ground: White Women in Aboriginal History (Aboriginal Studies Press, 2005). Her current research projects include a collaborative study of relationships between Aboriginal men and white women, a gendered analysis of the American choreographer Beth Dean's performance of Aboriginality in the ballet "Corroboree," and histories of Indigenous domestic service in settler societies.

MARGARET D. JACOBS is the director of Women's and Gender Studies and associate professor of history at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. She published Engendered Encounters; Feminism and Pueblo Cultures, 1879-1934 in 1999 and has just finished a book manuscript, "White Mother to a Dark Race: White Women and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the United States and Australia, 1880-1940."

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