Woman in Danger or Dangerous Woman? Contesting Images of Filipina Victims of Domestic Homicide in Australia
18 October 2005
Dr Nicki Saroca, Post Doctoral Fellow with the Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University
This presentation explored the contesting images and representations of two Filipino women in Australia – both victims of domestic homicide – as ‘woman in danger’ and ‘dangerous woman’ in the narratives of their families and friends and Australian and Philippine newspapers.
Implications of these competing images include:
- reinforcing stereotypes of Filipino women;
- legitimising the notion that Filipino women need Australian men to rescue them from poverty;
- silencing the history of domestic violence that both women experienced; and
- shifting responsibility for the violence away from their killers and onto the women themselves.
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