Indigenous Australian women’s leadership: stayin’ strong against the post‐colonial tide

As the first novel written by an Indigenous Australian to win the Miles Franklin Literary Award, Alexis Wright’s 2006 epic Carpentaria traverses Australia’s traditionalist literary landscape and allows her readers access into the kaleidoscopic style of Aboriginal storytelling and history. Through her poignant depiction of a town in crisis, Wright challenges established notions of time and authenticity while considering the place of storytelling in contemporary Australia. Still feeling the effects of the white imperialism that arrived with the first fleet, Carpentaria’s predominantly white readership is forced to reassess whether it is truly ‘post colonial’. Through her fairly blunt, ironic characters who serve as representations of the division between Western pragmatism and Indigenous spirituality, Wright eases her readers into the long overdue flow of cross-racial dialogue.

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Post-colonial Narratives of Australian Indigeneity in Austria: The Essl Exhibition on Contemporary Indigenous Australian Art

German-Australian Encounters and Cultural Transfers - Global Germany in Transnational Dialogues ◽

10.1007/978-981-10-6599-6_11 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 161-177

Author(s):

Oliver Haag

Keyword(s):

Indigenous Australian ◽

Post Colonial

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Women and Colonialism in Zambia

Sankofa Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies ◽

10.15353/sankofa.v1i1.4279 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Idah M. Nambeya

Keyword(s):

Women's Leadership ◽

Post Colonial ◽

The Status ◽

Developmental Contexts ◽

Status Of Women

This paper focuses on the status of women in Zambia during pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial periods. It highlights how colonialism perpetuated gender imbalances in Zambia and it examines the resilience of women’s leadership in different developmental contexts.

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National Liberation in Post–Colonial Southern Africa

10.1017/cbo9781316162958 ◽

2015 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

Christian A. Williams

Keyword(s):

Southern Africa ◽

National Liberation ◽

Post Colonial

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Leadership and Gender Stereotyping of Emotions

Journal of Personnel Psychology ◽

10.1027/1866-5888/a000136 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 14 (3) ◽

pp. 153-162 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Andrea Fischbach ◽

Philipp W. Lichtenthaler ◽

Nina Horstmann

Keyword(s):

Emotion Expression ◽

Women's Leadership ◽

Gender Stereotyping ◽

Leadership Perceptions ◽

Target Groups ◽

Male And Female ◽

General Managers ◽

Leadership Success ◽

And Gender ◽

Successful Manager

Abstract. People believe women are more emotional than men but it remains unclear to what extent such emotion stereotypes affect leadership perceptions. Extending the think manager-think male paradigm ( Schein, 1973 ), we examined the similarity of emotion expression descriptions of women, men, and managers. In a field-based online experiment, 1,098 participants (male and female managers and employees) rated one of seven target groups on 17 emotions: men or women (in general, managers, or successful managers), or successful managers. Men in general are described as more similar to successful managers in emotion expression than are women in general. Only with the label manager or successful manager do women-successful manager similarities on emotion expression increase. These emotion stereotypes might hinder women’s leadership success.

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