(WHITE) FEMINISM AND FOREIGNERS

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Acknowledgements My thanks to Kate Cadman and Anita Harris for reading this paper and supporting me in my attempt to write from my conscience. My special thanks to Ros Prosser who always suggests the right door to go through when I am unclear as to my direction. This project was supported by the Australian Research Council Large Grants Scheme project ‘The limited promise of equality biographies’, project number DP0663579. Notes 1. Columnist Janet Albrechtsen contrasted the ‘merely misogynistic’ footballer gang rapes with the ‘racism’ of the Muslim rapists (Grewal 2007 Grewal, Kiran. 2007. The ‘young Muslim man’ in Australian public discourse. Transforming Cultures eJournal, 2(1): 116–34. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar], 128). Radio commentator Alan Jones amazingly claimed ‘We don't have Anglo-Saxon kids out there raping women in Western Sydney’ (Grewal 2007 Grewal, Kiran. 2007. The ‘young Muslim man’ in Australian public discourse. Transforming Cultures eJournal, 2(1): 116–34. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar], 122). Prime Minister Howard opined it was ‘quite unfair’ on people associated with rugby league to criticise the aggressive masculinity of sporting culture (Grewal 2007 Grewal, Kiran. 2007. The ‘young Muslim man’ in Australian public discourse. Transforming Cultures eJournal, 2(1): 116–34. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar], 126); he said nothing when Alan Jones blamed the whole Muslim community and religion for the Lebanese gang rapes (Grewal 2007 Grewal, Kiran. 2007. The ‘young Muslim man’ in Australian public discourse. Transforming Cultures eJournal, 2(1): 116–34. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar], 119). 2. This and other quotations come from Bulbeck's 2000–2007 survey of 1,000 young people, largely high school students but including first-year university students and youth services clients and 230 of their parents in four Australian States (for a brief description see Bulbeck 2009b Bulbeck Chilla . 2009b . ‘Recognising’ each other in conversations between Anglo feminists and Muslim women Beyond the hijab: New conversations on gender, race and religion Tanja Dreher and Christina Ho . Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars . [Google Scholar], 209). Names have been changed where respondents asked for a pseudonym. Most of these did not. 3. ‘Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size’ (Woolf [1938] 1977 Woolf , Virgina . [1938] 1977 . Three guineas . Harmondsworth : Penguin . [Google Scholar], 35). 4. y thanks to Kate Cadman and Anita Harris for reading this paper and supporting me in my attempt to write from my conscience. My special thanks to Ros Prosser who always suggests the right door to go through when I am unclear as to my direction.