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
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9780295986098
Subjects: Indigenous women -- Islands of the Pacific -- History; Indigenous women -- Islands of the Pacific -- Public opinion; Women in popular culture -- Islands of the Pacific; Indigenous peoples in popular culture -- Islands of the Pacific; Stereotypes (Social psychology) -- Islands of the Pacific; Public opinion -- Europe; Islands of the Pacific -- Colonization; Europe -- Colonies -- Islands of the Pacific
Notes: "A McLellan book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-331) and index.
Table of contents: title: From antiquity to the discovery of Tahiti; title: Colonizing masculinities, 1767-1860; title: Nature's resources and the forging of an empire, 1788-1890; title: Gender, race, and the body politic in the Pacific and Europe; title: From the 1890s to the present.