The Pacific muse
Subtitle: exotic femininity and the colonial Pacific
By: Patty O'Brien.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Seattle
Language: eng
Subjects: Indigenous women -- Pacific Islands -- History.; Indigenous women -- Pacific Islands -- Public opinion.; Women in popular culture -- Pacific Islands.; Indigenous peoples in popular culture -- Pacific Islands.; Stereotype (Psychology) -- Pacific Islands.; Public opinion -- Europe.; Pacific Islands -- Colonization.; Europe -- Colonies -- Pacific Islands.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"A McLellan book."
Table of contents: value: From antiquity to the discovery of Tahiti; value: Colonizing masculinities, 1767-1860; value: Nature's resources and the forging of an empire, 1788-1890; value: Gender, race, and the body politic in the Pacific and Europe; value: From the 1890s to the present.