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Countries with no or few women in positions of government, for instance have maximum sexual assault cases. Studies indicate that there is a correlation between sexual assault and the lack of women in positions of authority.

Reynell Eveleigh Johns held various posts in the public service in central and northeastern Victoria. From 1858 to 1903 Johns maintained five scrapbook volumes, amassing some sixty-five articles and engravings from newspaper cuttings on Aborigines. Concurrently European and ‘native’ bodies were partitioned and aggregated into raced and gendered identities through clothing and adornment. The shift in textile manufacture from workshop to factory, and spinning frames to water-powered mechanized looms, coincided with the development of the steam-driven cylinder press, typefounding, typesetting and paper-making machinery. This essay is concerned with patterns of meaning, created by the assemblage of component parts, as inscripting topographies of racialized literacy. It argues that surfaces, either raised or recessed, tenured understanding to the economies of print and textile within colonial perception. The industrialization of print and textile overlapped chronologically with the exploration, settlement and expansion of frontiers in Australia, from 1780 to 1840. These technologies created distinct impressions and provided various forms of coverage. Their facility for reproduction and reiteration entrenched the colonial social matrix from which racial identities and their divisions emerged. By reiterative marks across various surfaces, the moveable parts of press and loom assembled social categories that were aggregated and imprinted, or woven, into the colonial imagination. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This article investigates the emergence and circulation of the term ‘Lubra’ as a referent for aboriginal women in Australia. The article ranges across contemporary classificatory systems or the typologies that supported the use of ‘Lubra’, narratives of inter-racial encounter, early settler dictionaries of vernacular languages, nineteenth-century anthropology, journalism and visual tropes in advertising and print media. This wide-ranging survey provides the basis to assess the recurrence of racialised types in white imaginings and their role in understandings of human difference. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the media coverage of Aboriginal women and girls who were forced into prostitution for Japanese pearlers in the 1930s. The author analyzes the use of the term "Black Velvet" in the print coverage of the scandal as colloquial language referring to interracial sexuality, explores the sexualization of indigenous women, and examines the territorial issues of the pearl trade.