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

该项目创新性地结合了对太平洋地区过去和现在的性别和性行为结构的分析，使用历史和民族志方法来解决关于妇女、男子和变性人的相互关联的问题。它将性别和性行为的动态变化置于跨文化接触中，其中本土模式和外部模式创造性地结合在一起。它先后关注了四个时代和进程：18世纪末的库克航海；19世纪以来基督教的皈依和女性结构的变化；男性与基督教皈依和男性移民劳动力的平行转变，以及与同性恋有关的性别界限的当代重新配置。

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.