'Near the Heart of the Imperial ethic': THe Boarding School as Apparatus of Patriarchy and Imperialism in The Getting of Wisdom

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  • Mandy Dyson The University of Adelaide

Keywords:

Henry Handel Richardson, imperialism, patriarchy, boarding schools

Abstract

The paper argues that The Getting of Wisdom demonstrates the tension of the white middle-class woman in a settler colony, resistant to both imperialism and patriarchy she is caught in their discourses and cannot avoid complicity.

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2013-02-17

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1995: Crossing Lines: Formations of Australian Culture

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