If everyone cared enough : her voice reclaimed / Margaret Tucker MBE
- Bib ID:
- 10025511
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Tucker, Margaret, 1904-1996, author
- Description:
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- Canberra, ACT : National Library of Australia Publishing, [2024]
- ©2024
- xxii, 216 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cm
- ISBN:
- 9781922507488 (paperback)
- Summary:
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Margaret Tucker MBE (affectionately known as Aunty Marge) was a significant Aboriginal activist and one of the first Aboriginal women to publish for mainstream audiences. Aunty Marge's 1977 If Everyone Cared was a landmark publication. In that first edition, her tone and draft content were significantly altered to placate white readers who were substantially unfamiliar with Aboriginal cultures and ignorant about the outcomes of settler invasion from a First Nations perspective. Drawing on the handwritten manuscript held in the collections of the National Library of Australia, If Everyone Really Cared reclaims Aunty Marge's original words. Her autobiography begins with happy early memories-swimming and fishing, listening and learning-and then follows the story after the abrupt end to her childhood when she was sent to the Cootamundra Domestic Training Home for Aboriginal Girls. This nationally important title shares the story of a brave, dedicated woman and her perseverance through a life of hardship towards the achievement of recognition for herself and her people.
- Notes:
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- "First nations Peoples are advised that this book contains depictions and names of deceased people, and content that may be considered culturally sensitive. The themes covered may also cause distress, and language that is not considered appropriate today is used in this book, reflecting the era in which it was first written."--Title cover verso.
- "First edition published by Ure Smith in 1977."--Imprint page.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Subject:
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- Tucker, Margaret, 1904-1996
- Aboriginal Australians -- New South Wales -- Biography
- Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Biography
- Yorta Yorta people D2
- Wiradjuri people D10
- History - Biographies - Indigenous - Autobiographies
- Child welfare - Child / parent separation - Stolen generations
- Child welfare - Children's homes
- Religions - Christianity - Missions
- Occupations - Domestic servants
- Southwest New South Wales (SW NSW SI54, SI55)
- Cummeragunja (SW NSW SJ55-01)
- Cootamundra (SW NSW SI55-11)
- Australian
- Also Titled:
- If everyone cared enough
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2074 [Created/Published Date + 50 Years]
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2024
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