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Just Relations: The Story of Mary Bennett's Crusade for Aboriginal Rights

(Paperback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Just Relations: The Story of Mary Bennett's Crusade for Aboriginal Rights

Contributors:

By (Author) Alison Holland

ISBN:

9781742586878

Publisher:

UWA Publishing

Imprint:

UWAP

Publication Date:

1st September 2015

Country:

Australia

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Dewey:

B

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

480

Dimensions:

Width 153mm, Height 234mm

Weight:

300g

Description

This book charts the life and work of one of Australia's leading twentieth century human rights advocates. It recovers the efforts of Mary Bennett (1881-1961) to found a 'just relationship' between Aborigines and non-Aborigines in Australia from the late 1920s, when the possibility of Aboriginal human rights was first mooted on the international stage, to the 1960s, when an attempt was made to have the Aboriginal question raised before the United Nations. By placing Bennett's biography in the context of her humanitarianism-her crusade- Alison Holland reveals the ethics of care, as well as the tensions, contradictions and investments at the heart of humanitarian intervention. Along the way, she shows the forces and ideas which shaped Bennett's advocacy and the wider context within which her story and her efforts took shape. In demonstrating the close connection between humanitarianism as a political project and the rise of human rights, Holland tells an important chapter in the little known history of human rights in Australia.

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