Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Map of main island groups of the Pacific
- Map of Papua New Guinea – Provinces
- Introduction
- 1 New England missionary wives, Hawaiian women and ‘The Cult of True Womanhood’
- 2 Changes in the lives of ordinary women in early post-contact Hawaii
- 3 Domestic structures and polyandry in the Marquesas Islands
- 4 The object lesson of a civilised, Christian home
- 5 Medical care and gender in Papua New Guinea
- 6 Suffer the children: Wesleyans in the D'Entrecasteaux
- 7 Women in contemporary Central Enga society, Papua New Guinea
- 8 Better homes and gardens
- 9 God, ghosts and people: Christianity and social organisation among Takuru Wiru
- 10 Sins of a mission: Christian life as Kwaio traditionalist ideology
- 11 Sacred spaces: churches, men's houses and households in South Pentecost, Vanuatu
- 12 Bond-slaves of Satan: Aboriginal women and the missionary dilemma
- Bibliography
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2011
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Map of main island groups of the Pacific
- Map of Papua New Guinea – Provinces
- Introduction
- 1 New England missionary wives, Hawaiian women and ‘The Cult of True Womanhood’
- 2 Changes in the lives of ordinary women in early post-contact Hawaii
- 3 Domestic structures and polyandry in the Marquesas Islands
- 4 The object lesson of a civilised, Christian home
- 5 Medical care and gender in Papua New Guinea
- 6 Suffer the children: Wesleyans in the D'Entrecasteaux
- 7 Women in contemporary Central Enga society, Papua New Guinea
- 8 Better homes and gardens
- 9 God, ghosts and people: Christianity and social organisation among Takuru Wiru
- 10 Sins of a mission: Christian life as Kwaio traditionalist ideology
- 11 Sacred spaces: churches, men's houses and households in South Pentecost, Vanuatu
- 12 Bond-slaves of Satan: Aboriginal women and the missionary dilemma
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Family and Gender in the PacificDomestic Contradictions and the Colonial Impact, pp. i - ivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1989