Gender, Power and Sexual Abuse in the Pacific: Rev. Simpson's "Improper Liberties" by Manktelow, Emily J.

Gender, Power and Sexual Abuse in the Pacific: Rev. Simpson's "Improper Liberties" (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781350147638)

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Gender, Power and Sexual Abuse in the Pacific: Rev. Simpson's "Improper Liberties" by Manktelow, Emily J.

Gender, Power and Sexual Abuse in the Pacific: Rev. Simpson's "Improper Liberties"

$44.95
Gender, Power and Sexual Abuse in the Pacific: Rev. Simpson's "Improper Liberties" by Manktelow, Emily J.

Gender, Power and Sexual Abuse in the Pacific: Rev. Simpson's "Improper Liberties"

$44.95
Format: Paperback
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In 1843 on the island of Tahiti the evangelical missionary Rev. Alexander Simpson was accused of sexually assaulting three of the female students under his care, and of taking 'improper liberties' with at least three more. The events did not come out in public for at least a decade, while Simpson's power in the local community only grew and rumblings relating to his wrong-doings were ruthlessly 'crushed'.

By exploring the case of Rev. Simpson, Emily Manktelow gives us key insights into the gender, power and racial dynamics of a particular case of sexual abuse on the frontiers of European colonialism. She explores the social and sexual context of clerical abuse, considers the hierarchies of gender and power that determined how the case was handled, and investigates the nature of colonialism, gender and abuse in the 19th century.

The uncomfortably timely content of Gender, Power and Sexual Abuse in the Pacificallows us to interrogate the way we deal with and represent issues of abuse, authority and childhood. It aims to give voice to those whom the archive has silenced, and to listen to what they have to tell us about gender, sexuality and abuse in the modern world.

Author: Emily J. Manktelow
ISBN-10: 135014763X
ISBN-13: 9781350147638
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 01/23/2020
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.53d
By Emily J. Manktelow
By Emily J. Manktelow
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Emily J. Manktelow is Lecturer in British Imperial History at the University of Kent, UK. She is the author of Missionary Families: Race, Gender and Generation on the Spiritual Frontier (2013) and co-editor of Subverting Empire: Deviance and Disorder in the British Colonial World (2015).

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