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Chapter 3. “Licentiousness has slain its hundreds of thousands”: The Missionary Discourse of Sex, Death, and Disease in Nineteenth-century Hawai‘i

  • Virginia Metaxas
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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Foreword: Knowledge Practices and Subject-making ix
  4. Acknowledgments xi
  5. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
  6. Part I. Confronting Colonial Discourses
  7. Chapter 2. Telling Tales Out of School: Sia Figiel and Indigenous Knowledge in Pacific Islands Literature 15
  8. Chapter 3. “Licentiousness has slain its hundreds of thousands”: The Missionary Discourse of Sex, Death, and Disease in Nineteenth-century Hawai‘i 37
  9. Part II. Cultural Translations
  10. Chapter 4. Gay Sexualities and Complicities: Rethinking the Global Gay 59
  11. Chapter 5. “What about Other Translation Routes (East-West)?” The Concept of the Term “Gender” Traveling into and throughout China 79
  12. Part III. Media
  13. Chapter 6. Gaze Upon Sakura: Imaging Japanese Americans on Japanese TV 101
  14. Chapter 7. Globalizing Gender Culture: Transnational Cultural Flows and the Intensification of Male Dominance in India 121
  15. Chapter 8. Performing Contradictions, Performing Bad-Girlness in Japan 138
  16. Part IV. Labor, Migration, and Families
  17. Chapter 9. The Social Imaginary and Kin Recruitment: Mexican Women Reshaping Domestic Work 161
  18. Chapter 10. Breaking the Code: Women, Labor Migration, and the 1987 Family Code of the Republic of the Philippines 176
  19. Chapter 11. Headloads: The Technologizing of Work and the Gendering of Labor 195
  20. Chapter 12. Gender and Modernity in a Chinese Economic Zone 213
  21. Part V. Trafficking
  22. Chapter 13. Female Sex Slavery or Just Women’s Work? Prostitution and Female Subjectivity within Anti-trafficking Discourses 233
  23. Chapter 14. “Do No Harm”: The Asian Female Migrant and Feminist Debates in the Global Anti-trafficking Movement 253
  24. Chapter 15. Gender, Globalization, and Militarization: An Interview with Cynthia Enloe 275
  25. Chapter 16. Environmental Effects of U.S. Military Security: Gendered Experiences from the Philippines, South Korea, and Japan 294
  26. Chapter 17. Globalizing and Gendered Forces: The Contemporary Militarization of Pacific/Oceania 318
  27. Part VII. Conclusion
  28. Chapter 18. Advancing Feminist Thinking on Globalization 335
  29. References 359
  30. Contributors 399
  31. Index 403
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