{"product_id":"the-pacific-muse-9780295987651","title":"The Pacific Muse","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOffers a perspective on the colonial stereotype of the exotic Pacific island woman, tracing the evolution of female primitivism from Western antiquity to twentieth-century Hollywood. This book includes 37 illustrations of Pacific women from early etchings by shipboard artists.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"O'Brien's book contributes to the burgeoning field of studies of gender and sexuality in Pacific Studies at the same time that it broadens the feminist critique of constructions of sexuality and gender… O'Brien allows us to glimpse many fascinating women, including Alice Henriette Handy, a Maori woman who was taken to America by her father, a New England whaling captain; and Maria de los Santos y Castro, a fifteen-year-old girl from Guam who was married to Matthew Mazarro, a Genoese four times her age.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Journal of World History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Pacific Muse\u003c\/i\u003e is highly recommended for anyone interested in Pacific history, the role of the indigenous colonial woman, and the truth behind the 'island girl' smile.\"\u003c\/p\u003e -- Debra Youthed * Glory Days Magazine *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Pacific Muse\u003c\/i\u003e is a complex historical narrative and O'Brien wields a vast amount of material.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Journal of Folklore Research *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"O'Brien's panoramic study on the evolution of the Western notion of the exotic feminine in the Pacific is riveting..The book is essential reading because the Pacific Muse remains alive and well today—- precisely because she continues to serve this role.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Journal of Pacific History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"As a 'gender-focused world history', Patty O'Brien foregrounds the female body in her exploration of the colonial South Pacific. O'Brien takes an overlapping thematic and chronological approach, tracing the production of exotic femininity from its foundations in antiquity through the present day.. [it is] an engaging, wide-ranging, and insightful work, enhanced by the liberal inclusion of excellent images.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * BC Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"As Patty O'Brien illustrates with almost encyclopedic detail, since their earliest connections with Europeans, Pacific womenhave been portrayed as lascivious, hypersexual, sensual, enticing, and always available. . . . O'Brien's task is to unfold the sexing of the Pacific, from Renaissance representations of the sixteenth century to the celluloid images of the twentieth. . . The research is meticulous.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * The Historian *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Patty O'Brien's study offers readers an examination of the role of the feminine in the construction of the Pacific in the western imagination. . . [a] rich and detailed book.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Pacific Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Pacific Muse\u003c\/i\u003e reaches beyond the words and images that Europeans, particularly European men, painted about women in the Pacific. O'Brien explores the relationship between images of Pacific womanhood and different configurations of imperialism around the region.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Journal of Women's History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e I. From Antiquity to Discovery of Tahiti\u003cbr\u003e II. Colonizing Masculinities, 1767-1860\u003cbr\u003e III. Nature's Resources and the Forging of Empire, 1788-1890\u003cbr\u003e IV. Gender, Race, and the Body Politic in the Pacific and Europe\u003cbr\u003e V. From the 1890s to the Present\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Washington Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400915657047,"sku":"9780295987651","price":33.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780295987651.jpg?v=1730471937","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-pacific-muse-9780295987651","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}