What problems do many indigenous Australian women writers see with Anglo-Australian feminism(s) when viewed from the perspective(s) of indigenous women?

The relationship between Aboriginal women and Anglo-Australian women began in colonial Australia; a society in which Aboriginal were not legitimate subjects and were forcibly subjugated beneath white racial hegemony. Criticisms of Anglo-Australian feminist theory by indigenous women stem from this seemingly ignorable past and are angered at the proposals of ‘sisterhood’ based merely upon a common gender. Not only have analyses of gender been developed according to the agendas of the socially and culturally specific middle-class white feminist, but also these models have been assumed to be universally inherent and subsequently imposed upon women of all cultures, only allowing for differences through rhetoric that implies deviation from a norm. This “other” is reinforced by the trend of “whiteness” going unnoticed. Through discrepancies in social and political privilege, between middle-class white Anglo-Australian feminists, and Aboriginal feminists, these trends have prevail...