@article{ref1,
title="'Wanton With Plenty' Questioning Ethno-historical Constructions of Sexual Savagery in Aboriginal Societies, 1788-1803",
journal="Australian historical studies",
year="2008",
author="Konishi, Shino",
volume="39",
number="3",
pages="356-372",
abstract="Louis Nowra's recently published Bad Dreaming: Aboriginal Men's Violence Against Women and Children (2007) includes an ethno-historical study of gender relations in Aboriginal `traditional' society, drawing on early explorers' observations and anthropological accounts. Inga Clendinnen likewise included a chapter on Aboriginal sexual politics in Dancing with Strangers (2003). This paper critiques their conclusions and methods, and closely analyses the same terrain-late eighteenth-century European representations of Aboriginal sexual relations. My aim is not to deny that there were instances of violence in the sexual conduct of eighteenth-century Aboriginal societies. Instead, this paper demonstrates that Nowra and Clendinnen's ethno-histories fail to present a holistic account of the myriad descriptions of Indigenous gender dynamics that permeate the European explorers' accounts.<p />",
language="",
issn="1031-461X",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}