Indigenous Australian women's colonial sexual intimacies: positioning indigenous women's agency

被引:18
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作者
Sullivan, Corrinne Tayce [1 ]
机构
[1] Macquarie Univ, Dept Geog & Planning, Sydney, NSW, Australia
关键词
Indigenous Australian; Indigenous sexualities; prostitution; agency; identities; HEALTH;
D O I
10.1080/13691058.2017.1349930
中图分类号
D669 [社会生活与社会问题]; C913 [社会生活与社会问题];
学科分类号
1204 ;
摘要
Colonialist views of Indigenous bodies and sexualities continue to affect Indigenous peoples worldwide. For Indigenous Australians, this burden has resulted in repression and oppression of power, sex and desire. Focusing on the sexual intimacies of Indigenous Australian women, this paper provides an account of the dominant Australian historical discourses, finding that Indigenous women were viewed as exotic, erotic, something to be desired, yet simultaneously something to be feared. Our sexualities were described as savage, promiscuous and primitive and we were often viewed as prostitutes with our voices and views constrained by patriarchal and imperial regimes of power. But within this context, Indigenous women fought back through both individual and collective acts of agency. This paper demonstrates how Indigenous Australian women's agency not as a new phenomenon but rather as a position that disrupts the popular discourses of exploitation and victimhood that have been persistently perpetrated against Indigenous women. ResumeLes vues colonialistes sur les corps et les sexualites indigenes continuent d'affecter les populations indigenes dans le monde. Pour les indigenes australiens, ce fardeau a eu pour consequence la repression et l'oppression du pouvoir, du sexe et du desir. En se concentrant sur les intimites sexuelles des femmes indigenes australiennes, cet article rend compte des discours historiques dominants en Australie et revele que ces femmes etaient percues comme etant exotiques, erotiques, des objets de desir et pourtant, simultanement, de crainte. Nos sexualites etaient decrites comme sauvages, debauchees et primitives, et nous etions souvent considerees comme des prostituees, avec nos voix et nos points de vue reprimes par les regimes de pouvoir patriarcaux et imperiaux. Mais dans ce contexte, les femmes indigenes ont riposte par des actes relevant du libre arbitre, aussi bien individuellement que collectivement. Cet article presente le libre arbitre des femmes indigenes australiennes non pas en tant que nouveau phenomene, mais plutot en tant que position qui perturbe les discours populaires sur l'exploitation et la victimisation, continuellement perpetrees a l'endroit des femmes indigenes. ResumenA nivel mundial, las perspectivas colonialistas relativas a los cuerpos y las sexualidades indigenas continuan afectando a los pueblos indigenas. En el caso de los indigenas australianos, esta carga ha dado lugar a la represion y la opresion del poder, el sexo y el deseo. A partir del analisis de la intimidad sexual de mujeres indigenas australianas, el presente articulo da cuenta de los discursos historicos dominantes en Australia, comprobando que esta poblacion ha sido considerada como exotica, erotica, algo deseable pero a la vez temido. Nuestras sexualidades ha sido caracterizadas como salvajes, promiscuas y primitivas, y a menudo fuimos percibidas como prostitutas; historicamente nuestras voces y perspectivas han sido constrenidas por regimenes de poder patriarcales e imperiales. Sin embargo, en este contexto, las mujeres indigenas han luchado a traves de actos de agencialidad tanto individuales como colectivos. El articulo muestra como la agencia de las mujeres indigenas australianas no constituye un fenomeno nuevo sino que representa una posicion que interrumpe los discursos populares vinculados a la explotacion y la victimizacion perpetradas insistentemente contra las mujeres indigenas.
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