
When Women Ruled the Pacific
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In When Women Ruled the Pacific Joy Schulz highlights four Polynesian women rulers who held enormous domestic and foreign power and expertly governed their people amid shifting loyalties, outright betrayals, and the ascendancy of imperial racism. Like their European counterparts, these Polynesian rulers fought arguments of lineage, as well as battles for territorial control, yet the freedom of Polynesian women in general and women rulers in particular was unlike anything Europeans and Americans had ever seen. Consequently, white chroniclers of contact had difficulty explaining their encounters, initially praising yet ultimately condemning Polynesian gender systems, resulting in the loss of women's autonomy. The queens' successes have been lost in the archives as imperial histories and missionary accounts chose to tell different stories. In this first book to consider queenship and women's political sovereignty in the Pacific, Schulz recenters the lives of the women rulers in the history of nineteenth-century international relations.
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"Audiences from a wide range of backgrounds looking to study topics including but not limited to women, gender, and sexuality, Indigenous politics, oceanic history, nineteenth-century history, and nineteenth-century politics will gain insights from, change, and/or re-center their views from this amazing book."-Daniel Kauwila Mahi, Pacific Historical Review "This is a readable, concise, and nicely illustrated book."-L. Lindstrom, Choice "Compelling, deeply researched, and beautifully written. When Women Ruled the Pacific addresses an area of history that has been underserved by existing literature. Joy Schulz has found a really intriguing historical situation with the case of the four queens and has written an excellent book."-Emily Manktelow, author of Gender, Power, and Sexual Abuse in the Pacific: Rev. Simpson's "Improper Liberties" "A smartly written text that makes wide-ranging use of a robust set of primary archives. Joy Schulz's impressive command of the vast and varied primary sources for the figures she examines is evident throughout the text. More, Schulz's multidisciplinary approach informs and permeates her study."-Jennifer Thigpen, author of Island Queens and Mission Wives: How Gender and Empire Remade Hawai'i's Pacific WorldMore details
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Woman in Red
1. Purea
2. 'Aimata
3. Ka'ahumanu
4. Lili'uokalani
Conclusion: To All the Queens
Appendix A: Partial Letter from Pomare to Queen Victoria (1844)
Appendix B: Queen Lili'uokalani's Formal Protest to the United States against the Annexation Treaty (1897)
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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