Bitter sweet : indigenous women in the Pacific edited by Alison Jones, Phyllis Herda and Tamasailau M. Suaalil

By: Jones, AlisonContributor(s): Jones, AlisonMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Dunedin, New Zealand. University of Otago c2000Description: 159 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: 1877133876Subject(s): Herda, Phyllis | Indigenous women -- Maori -- Samoa -- Pacific | Oceania -- gender and work -- FijiDDC classification: PAC 305 .4 BIT 2000
Contents:
mages of Māori women in New Zealand postcards after 1900 / Jacqui Sutton Beets -- In the interests of Māori women? : discourses of reclamation / Te Kawehau Clea Hoskins -- Education in Western Samoa : reflections on my experiences / Lonise Tanielu -- Learning sexuality : young Samoan women / AnneMarie Tupuola -- Gender and work in Fiji : constraints and re-negotiation / Jacqueline Leckie -- Deconstructing the 'exotic' female beauty of the Pacific Islands / Tamasailau Suaalii -- Reflecting on the Pacific : representations of the Pacific and Pacific Island women in five dominant cinematic texts / Judith van Trigt -- Poems / Konai Helu Thaman -- Reclamation of cultural identity for Māori women : a response to 'prisonisation' / D. Helene Connor -- Ancient banyans, flying foxes and white ginger : the poetry of Pacific Islands women / Selina Tusitala Marsh.
Summary: Maori, Samoan, Samoan/Tuvaluan, Palagi and Tongan authors 'write down' the complex, bitter sweet politics of women's lives and struggles in the Pacific.
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Glossary of Maori words
Glossary of Samoan words

mages of Māori women in New Zealand postcards after 1900 / Jacqui Sutton Beets --
In the interests of Māori women? : discourses of reclamation / Te Kawehau Clea Hoskins --
Education in Western Samoa : reflections on my experiences / Lonise Tanielu --
Learning sexuality : young Samoan women / AnneMarie Tupuola --
Gender and work in Fiji : constraints and re-negotiation / Jacqueline Leckie --
Deconstructing the 'exotic' female beauty of the Pacific Islands / Tamasailau Suaalii --
Reflecting on the Pacific : representations of the Pacific and Pacific Island women in five dominant cinematic texts / Judith van Trigt --
Poems / Konai Helu Thaman --
Reclamation of cultural identity for Māori women : a response to 'prisonisation' / D. Helene Connor --
Ancient banyans, flying foxes and white ginger : the poetry of Pacific Islands women / Selina Tusitala Marsh.

Maori, Samoan, Samoan/Tuvaluan, Palagi and Tongan authors 'write down' the complex, bitter sweet politics of women's lives and struggles in the Pacific.