Oceanic Encounters: colonial and contemporary transformations of gender and sexuality in the Pacific

该项目创新性地结合了对整个太平洋地区过去和当代性别和性行为结构的分析，利用历史和人种学方法来解决有关妇女、男子和变性人的相互关联的问题。它将性别和性的动态转变置于跨文化的遭遇中，其中土著和外来模式创造性地结合在一起。它先后集中在四个时代和过程：库克航行在十八世纪后期;基督教从十九世纪的转换和不断变化的结构，女性化;男性化与基督教转换和男性移民劳动力和当代重新配置的性别界限与同性恋。

This project innovatively combines an analysis of past and contemporary configurations of gender and sexuality across the Pacific, using historical and ethnographic methods to address interconnected questions about women, men and transgendered persons. It situates dynamic transformations of gender and sexuality in cross-cultural encounters wherein indigenous and exogenous patterns creatively combined. It focuses successively on four epochs and processes: the Cook voyages in the late eighteenth century; Christian conversion from the nineteenth century and the changing fabric of femininities; parallel transformations of masculinities with Christian conversion and male migrant labour and contemporary reconfigurations of gender liminality in relation to homosexuality.