Masculine Sexuality, Violence and Sexual Exploitation in Micronesia

Bibliographic Data

ID2174873
AuthorsManuel Rauchholz (Sa'adu Zungur University, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume17
Issue3-4
Pages342-358
Publication date2016-08-07
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCanberra Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0314-9099 • E-ISSN: 1740-9314
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14442213.2016.1196724
OpenAlexW2497965097
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited16

This article concerns aspects of masculine sexuality, violence and sexual exploitation in Micronesia, with particular attention to Chuukese and Pohnpeian gender ideology and gender relations. Above all, masculine sexuality and sexual exploitation is discussed in the context of Micronesian concepts of ownership and exchange, reciprocity (‘sharing’) and power differences between men, women, kin and non-kin. Despite the presence of alternate and, in some areas, competing value systems stemming from Christianity, or an Americanised constitution and legal system, core traditional values related to male sexuality from the pre-Christian, pre-colonial times still show their presence in masculine (and feminine) thought and practice more than one might expect

Colonialism · Context (archaeology) · Criminology · Geography · Human sexuality · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Reciprocity (cultural anthropology) · Sexual violence · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Law

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