Bitter sweet : indigenous women in the Pacific / Alison Jones, Phyllis Herda & Tamasailau M. Suaalii. - Dunedin, N.Z : University of Otago Press, 2000. - 159 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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Images of Maori women in New Zealand postcards after 1900 / Jacqui Sutton Beets -- In the interests of Maori 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 Maori women: a response to 'prisonisation' / D. Helene Connor -- Ancient banyans, flying foxes and white ginger: the poetry of Pacific Islands women / Selina Tusitala Marsh.

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Women--Social conditions--Oceania
Women--Economic conditions--Oceania
Women Maori--Social conditions
Women Samoan--Social conditions

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