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South Sea Maidens
Western Fantasy and Sexual Politics in the South Pacific
While women from far off lands have always been presented as exotic and alluring, the South Sea maiden has come to symbolize feminine sexuality, sensuality, and romance of the South Pacific. This work looks at South Sea image-makers and the women they find so seductive. Les mer
While women from far off lands have always been presented as exotic and alluring, the South Sea maiden has come to symbolize feminine sexuality, sensuality, and romance of the South Pacific. This work looks at South Sea image-makers and the women they find so seductive.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Praeger Publishers Inc
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780313316746
- Utgivelsesår
- 2002
Om forfatteren
Pulls together an array of popular images from history, fiction, visual arts, anthropology, film, and tourism to provide a fresh perspective on an enduring Western icon.MICHAEL STURMA is Senior Lecturer in History at Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia. Born in Philadelphia and raised in Lexington, Kentucky, he obtained his Ph.D. from the Australian National University in 1980 and has resided in Australia ever since. He has also taught at the University of New England. He is author of Vice in a Vicious Society: Crime and Convicts in Mid-Nineteenth Century New South Wales (1983) and Australian Rock'n'Roll: The First Wave (1991).
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