Browsing Center for Pacific Islands Studies by Subject "gender"

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Globalizing Drag in the Cook Islands: Friction, Repulsion, and Abjection

Alexeyeff, Kalissa (University of Hawai'i Press / Center for Pacific Islands Studies, 2008)

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 ...
“The Martial Islands”: Making Marshallese Masculinities between American and Japanese Militarism

Dvorak, Greg (University of Hawai'i Press / Center for Pacific Islands Studies, 2008)

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 ...
Traveling Stories, Colonial Intimacies, and Women's Histories in Vanuatu

Rodman, Margaret (University of Hawai'i Press / Center for Pacific Islands Studies, 2004)

The story of the 1937 death of an eighteen-month-old girl named Wilhemina (Mina) Whitford in the care of her ni-Vanuatu nursemaid, Evelyn, frames this article. The Whitford’s version of this story was heard in the course ...