ABSTRACT
Burbank, Victoria, Fighting Women: Anger and Aggression
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BURBANK is a confronting and detailed scholarly study of the meaning of gender relations amongst a Northern Australian Aboriginal group, thematically anchored in “aggression” as a key activity among women. The author, in a potent crosscultural analysis, uses the concepts, categories, connections, and rules that are provided by her Aboriginal female protagonists to investigate the notion of “victim” constructed by Western feminists and to further sociological understanding of women.
