Sexual Encounters : : Pacific Texts, Modern Sexualities / / Lee Wallace.
European literary, artistic, and anthropological representation has long viewed the Pacific as the site of heterosexual pleasures. The received wisdom of these accounts is based on the idea of female bodies unrestrained by civilization. In a revisionist history of the Pacific zone and some of its pr...
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