Daughters of the Dreaming by Diane Bell

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Remnant on tail foredge. Foxing marks on foredges and author bio page. Spine is protected with book tape.

Women are rarely mentioned in the literature as owners of country in their own right or as decision-making individuals; they appear as wives and mothers, and their relationship to the jukurrpa (dreaming law) is always mediated through another.

Diane Bell argues that women enjoy direct access to the jukurrpa which flows into rights and responsibilities in land, a power base as independent economic producers and a high degree of control over their own lives in marriage, residence, economic production, reproduction and sexuality.

Living in the community, and developing friendships that have spanned decades, award-winning author Diane Bell shines a light on the importance of women's role in Australian Aboriginal desert culture.