Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Guess who's not coming to dinner1. Husbands
2. Breeders
3. The combo
4. Black sheep
5. Jim Crows
6. Conclusion: embracive reconciliation
Works cited
Index

Promotional Information

Made to Matter analyses the stories of the Stolen Generation's white fathers, building on and complicating their role in this history.

About the Author

Fiona Probyn-Rapsey is a professor in the School of Humanities and Social Inquiry at the University of Wollongong.

Reviews

'It is rare to come across studies of important themes in the context of a national culture, such as the Australian, and think, why has this not been examined properly before? Fiona Probyn-Rapsey's Made to Matter. White Fathers, Stolen Generations represents such a study ... Made to Matter is an important book not least because it draws attention to an overlooked aspect of twentieth-century outback contact-zone history.'

-- Lars Jensen * Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia (JEASA), Vol.6 No.1, 2015. *

'In openly analysing the 'Great Australian silence' and 'cults of disremembering' that surround sexual intimacy between white Australians and Aboriginal people, Made to Matter breaches the uncomfortable reality of colonial history.'

-- Valerie Cooms * Cultural Studies Review *