| Description |
xii, 212 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
1. No safe places -- 2. Community silence and denial -- 3. A failure of the law -- 5. The oppression of being "civilized" -- 6. Moral violence -- 7. The "promise": customary law marriage -- 8. Rape -- 9. Different cosmologies -- 10. Yolgnu and Balanda -- 11. "What is truth?" -- 12. Cultural disintegration and violence -- 13. Reconciling rights in sentencing -- 14. Is anybody listening? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Table of cases -- Index |
| Summary |
Why do Aboriginal women in Australia experience such high levels of violence in their own communities? In this sober and carefully researched book, the author discusses the extent and nature of the violence, its underlying causes, current policies, and changes that might improve these policies |
| Analysis |
Aboriginal women |
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Domestic violence |
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Aboriginal customary law |
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Comparative law |
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Sentencing |
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Social conditions |
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Cases (Law) |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Women -- Social conditions.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Customary law -- Australia.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Wife abuse
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Wife abuse -- Australia.
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Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Social conditions.
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Abused women -- Australia.
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Family violence -- Australia.
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| Author |
Solomon, Russell (Lecturer)
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| LC no. |
00002551 |
| ISBN |
186287509X paperback |
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9781862875098 paperback |
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