| Description |
1 online resource (175 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-172) and index. |
| Contents |
Pacific texts, modern sexualities -- Sexual encounter in Hawaii on Cook's third voyage -- Marquesan encounter and male visibility -- Sexual difference and the expulsion of William Yate -- Gauguin's Manao Tupapau and sodomitical invitation -- Fa'afafine, queens of Samoa and sexual elision. |
| Summary |
The subject of Sexual encounters is sexual fantasy, particularly male homoerotic fantasy found in the literature and art of South Sea exploration, colonization, and settlement. Wallace engages in subversive readings of eighteenth and nineteenth-century Pacific voyage journals (Cook in Hawaii and a Russian expedition to the Marquesas), reassesses Gauguin's treatment of female figures, and discusses homosexuality and Samoan male-to-female transgenderism. These phenomena, Wallace asserts, demonstrate the continuity and dissonance between Western and Pacific sexual categories. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cook, James, 1728-1779 -- Sexual behavior.
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Cook, James, 1728-1779. |
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Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820 -- Sexual behavior.
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Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820. |
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Gauguin, Paul, 1848-1903 -- Sexual behavior.
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Gauguin, Paul, 1848-1903. |
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Sex customs -- Islands of the Pacific -- History -- Sources.
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Sex customs. |
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History. |
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Sources.
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Europeans -- Sexual behavior -- Islands of the Pacific.
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Europeans. |
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Europeans -- Islands of the Pacific -- Attitudes.
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Pacific Islanders -- Sexual behavior.
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Pacific Islanders. |
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Heterosexuality -- Islands of the Pacific -- History -- Sources.
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Heterosexuality. |
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Homosexuality -- Islands of the Pacific -- History -- Sources.
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Homosexuality. |
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Islands of the Pacific -- Discovery and exploration.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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Sexual practices. |
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Heterosexuality. |
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Homosexuality. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Wallace, Lee, 1962- Sexual encounters. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2003 0801441218 (DLC) 2002155647 (OCoLC)51264872 |
| ISBN |
9781501717369 (electronic book) |
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1501717367 (electronic book) |
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0801441218 |
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9780801441219 |
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080148832X |
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9780801488320 |
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