Embodied Connections: Gender, Race, and Reproduction in Oceania: Placental Politics: CHamoru Women, White Womanhood and Indigeneity under U.S. Colonialism in Guam, Christine Taitano DeLisle, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2021.: Moral Figures: Making Reproduction Public in Vanuatu, Alexandra Widmer, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2023.

Abstract

This review article juxtaposes two books, Placental Politics and Moral Figures, which offer innovative decolonial, feminist approaches to reproductive politics and embodied connections in colonial and contemporary Oceania. They evince an extraordinary empirical and theoretical sophistication that has developed in scholarship over recent decades in analysing the racialised and gendered logics of colonialism, in researching the embodied relations between Indigenous and white settler women, and in developing the theory and practice of Oceanic feminisms. Show more