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Tracing the Harmful Patterns of White Settler Womanhood
From: White Benevolence
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In chapter 6, Willow Samara Allen considers the integral role white women have played in the ongoing settler-colonial project through the performance of benevolent white femininity, which preserves white women’s status and white settler dominance under the guise of protection, help and saving. This chapter is a call for white settler women to think about what it means to be a white woman and to embody white femininity in the Canadian settler-colonial context. This chapter is a navigation of the contentious terrain of interrogating whiteness and white women through the voice of a white woman, in order to challenge the expectation that white people, including the author herself, can deflect from responsibility for colonial violence.
