Boundary Writing: An Exploration of Race, Culture, and Gender Binaries in Contemporary Australia

Published by University of Hawaii Press 2006

Boundary Writing

An Exploration of Race, Culture, and Gender Binaries in Contemporary Australia

Edited by: Lynette Russell

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824843212

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Have globalization and the emergence of virtual cultures reduced cultural diversity? Will the world become homogenized or Americanized? Boundary Writing sets out to demonstrate that this oversimplification denies the reality that today there is greater space for cultural diversity than ever before. It explores the desire to categorize individuals and collectivities into racial, ethnic, gender, and sexuality categories (black and white, men and women, gay and straight), which is a feature of most Western societies. More specifically, it analyzes the boundaries and edges of these categories and concepts.

Across nine chapters, contributors reveal that such binaries are often too restrictive. Through a series of case studies they consider how these various concepts overlap, coincide, and at times conflict.They investigate the tension between these classifications that in turn produce individual speaking positions. Many people—indigenous, native, Anglo-settler, recent migrants of diverse ethnic backgrounds, gay, transgender, queer—occupy an "in between" position that is strategically shifting with the social, political, and economic circumstances of the individual. In Boundary Writing, the reader will journey through various complex permutations of identity and in particular the ways in which indigeneity, race, sex, and gender interact and even counter-act one another.

Contributors: Erez Cohen, Aaron Corn, Bruno David, Neparrna Gumbula, Michele Grossman, Myfanwy McDonald, Clive Moore, Stephen Pritchard, Liz Reed, Lynette Russell.

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Russell Lynette :

Lynette Russell holds the Chair in Australian Indigenous Studies at Monash University and is director of the Centre of Australian Indigenous Studies.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Chapter 1. Introduction Lynette Russell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 2. From Beats to Cybersex: Australian Gay Male Appropriation of Public Spaces Clive Moore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	18
Chapter 3. The Nonsurgical Option: Deciding Not to Decide about Gender Identity Myfanwy McDonald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Chapter 4. Non-Anglo and Non-Aboriginal Australian: Multiculturalism, the Third Side of the Black/White Divide Erez Cohen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	66
Chapter 5. Cultural Calculus: Cultural Translation and the Politics of Indigenous Cultural Property Stephen Pritchard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	86
Chapter 6. “. . . different lives in different places”: A Space for Multiple White Identities through Aboriginal Rock Music Liz Reed Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
Chapter 7. Indigenous Rights and the Mutability of Cultures: Tradition, Change, and the Politics of Recognition Bruno David Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
Chapter 8. Beyond Orality and Literacy: Textuality, Modernity, and Representation in Gularabulu: Stories from the West Kimberley Michele Grossman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
Chapter 9. Rom and the Academy Repositioned: Binary Models in Yolŋu Intellectual Traditions and their Application to Wider Intercultural Dialogues Aaron Corn and Neparrŋa Gumbula Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	170
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203

Language: English
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 224
Illustrations
- Other: 7 illus.

eBook

Published: June 30, 2006
ISBN: 9780824843212