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Supporting minority women and girls: key frames of reference and understanding for educators

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posted on 2011-02-01, 00:00 authored by Amanda KeddieAmanda Keddie
Recent high-profile rape cases in Australia involving Muslim and Indigenous minority groups have heightened contention around issues of culture, gender and justice. The article critically examines the culturalising of rape as an ethnic minority issue in the public and legal discourse associated with these cases. This examination problematises the western-driven narratives about minority women that undergird and make possible this culturalising and foregrounds Muslim and Indigenous feminist priorities concerning issues of gender equity and justice. Against this backdrop, the article draws parallels between the inferiorising of ethnic minority culture in dominant legal and public discourse and the reductionism of culture in education discourse. Towards realising the equity mandates of national schooling policy, the article outlines key frames of reference and understanding about culture, gender and justice necessary for enhancing educators’ support for ethnic minority women and girls.

History

Journal

British educational research journal

Volume

37

Issue

1

Pagination

131 - 146

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Location

Abingdon, Eng.

ISSN

0141-1926

eISSN

1469-3518

Language

eng

Publication classification

C Journal article; C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2011, British Education Research Association

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