Sacred Queens and Women of Consequence: Rank, Gender, and Colonialism in the Hawaiian Islands by Jocelyn Linnekin (ISBN - 9780472064236)
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"Sacred Queens and Women of Consequence is a pathbreaking examination of the contact encounter in Hawaii from the perspective of Hawaiian women. Jocelyn Linnekin offers a reconstruction of Hawaiian women's authority and status before contact with the West and examines changes in their cultural valuation and social position during the first century of Western contact."