Decolonising Feminism: Aboriginal Women and the Global ‘Sisterhood’

Abstract

“Women have been a footnote in [a] male-defined system. And if women are the footnote, then Aboriginal women are the footnote to the footnote ” (Patricia Monture, as cited in Boulton, 2003: par. 4). For several decades the caution that “[w]omen should not position themselves ‘on the