Despite the fact that Fiji is one of only a handful of states to have given constitutional recognition to the rights of sexual minorities in its most recent constitution enacted in 1998, controversy over the issue of ...

This article is underpinned by the simple question of what knowledge is produced about Mäori men and why. In particular, it deconstructs the invention, authentication, and re-authentication of “traditional” Mäori patriarchy. ...

Male to female cross-dressing and performing have a long indigenous history in the Cook Islands. In recent years, Western-style drag shows have also been included in the Cook Islands cross-dressing repertoire. This article ...

In this article I argue that the Hawaiian conceptual, cultural, and physical space called po‘ina nalu (surf zone) was a borderland (or boarder-land) where colonial hegemony was less effectual and Hawaiian resistance ...

For over a century, the Marshall Islands have been entangled between the United States and Japan in their conquest of the Central Pacifi c; yet because of this, these islands have also been a place where multiple ...

Past studies of Oceanic masculinities have tended to see masculinity in the singular, through the lens of unchanging cultural traditions, wherein types of men were iconic of cultural differences. This special issue considers ...