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- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume II
- Frontispiece
- General Editor’s Introduction
- Preface to Volume II
- Part VII Rethinking the Pacific
- Part VIII Approaches, Sources, and Subaltern Histories of the Modern Pacific
- 37 Archives and Community Memory in the Pacific
- 38 Missing in Action
- 39 Rethinking Gender and Identity in Asia and the Pacific
- 40 Fifty Years of The Hawaiian Nation
- 41 Pacific Literature and History
- 42 Film and Pacific History
- 43 The Visual and Performing Arts of the Pacific
- Part IX Culture Contact and the Impact of Pre-colonial European Influences
- Part X The Colonial Era in the Pacific
- Part XI The Pacific Century?
- Part XII Pacific Futures
- References to Volume II
- Index
39 - Rethinking Gender and Identity in Asia and the Pacific
from Part VIII - Approaches, Sources, and Subaltern Histories of the Modern Pacific
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 November 2022
- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume II
- Frontispiece
- General Editor’s Introduction
- Preface to Volume II
- Part VII Rethinking the Pacific
- Part VIII Approaches, Sources, and Subaltern Histories of the Modern Pacific
- 37 Archives and Community Memory in the Pacific
- 38 Missing in Action
- 39 Rethinking Gender and Identity in Asia and the Pacific
- 40 Fifty Years of The Hawaiian Nation
- 41 Pacific Literature and History
- 42 Film and Pacific History
- 43 The Visual and Performing Arts of the Pacific
- Part IX Culture Contact and the Impact of Pre-colonial European Influences
- Part X The Colonial Era in the Pacific
- Part XI The Pacific Century?
- Part XII Pacific Futures
- References to Volume II
- Index
Summary
Since the 1980s, a focus on gender relations has opened up new questions about the Pacific past across a diverse set of issues.1 Health, sexuality, war, the family, reproduction, and many other areas have benefited from the analytical insights made possible by gender as a ‘category of analysis’.2 Gender, as Patricia O’Brien has argued, has been ‘vital to understanding the cultural kaleidoscope of the Pacific’.3 For instance, recognition that gender is a socially constructed category and system of meaning has produced an influential body of scholarship on Western representations of Pacific bodies since the eighteenth century across a range of cultural texts.4 Because gender is woven into the structure of institutions, the allocation of resources, and the sexual division of labour, it has been a particularly fruitful area for the examinations of power and rank in Indigenous societies, while studies of cross-cultural encounters have highlighted the centrality of gender and sexuality to imperial and colonial projects.5
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- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean , pp. 206 - 232Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023