Overview

Sex and Savagery in the Good Colony: South Australia 1836-1901 is a wide-ranging look at the realities of British colonisation. It explores how violence undermined the best of colonial intentions and how, for those who suffered, the final indignity was having their experiences glossed over. In this book, award-winning writer and anthropologist Julie Marcus explains how and why this happened, and why violence cast such long shadows over the lives of both victims and perpetrators. She uncovers the hidden injuries of sexual violence to show how it was used by colonists as a weapon of war. Both experienced and new readers will benefit from this accessible yet essential historical account of our colonial past. Sex and Savagery in the Good Colony reveals that, in South Australia and the Northern Territory, the real heroes of the war were the women of the First Nations of Australia - and it is time they are honoured.

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- 'The writing is gorgeous, precise and moving.' - Professor Eva Mackey, Carlton University, Ottawa, Canada - 'This beautifully written book carefully and relentlessly builds a compelling analysis around its central question: how could a colony that quite sincerely understands itself as ""good"" - respectful of God's morality and the social laws that grant human right rights along with colonisation - be so brutal?' - Dr Judy Lattas

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Julie Marcus is an anthropologist and writer. Her doctoral research investigated the relationship between Islam and women's lives in urban Turkey; later work focused on how race, gender and sexuality appeared in public discussions of social life in Australia. She is the author of The Indomitable Miss Pink: A life in anthropology, a family memoir, The Flavour of Her Years: Culinary memories of Mother and domestic life in the 1950s, Sex and Savagery in the Good Colony: South Australia 1836-1901, plus several edited volumes.

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