Reviews for Intermediate algebra for today

The average rating for Intermediate algebra for today based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-05-12 00:00:00 Anthony Markowski A very concise overview of the history of the 'South Sea Maiden' archetype conjured from European contact and interaction with the South Pacific. Sturma examines how this archetype arose from the voyages of Enlightenment-era navigators and was cultivated and nourished through 19th century fictional literature, 20th century cinema and this archetype continues to be subverted or reinvented by indigenous artists. While Sturma, extensively covers European aesthetic and sexual impressions of indigenous women in an array of places in Oceania encompassing Australia, New Zealand, the Marquesan Islands, Tahiti, Samoa, Papua New Guinea, Hawaii and Vanuatu, it would be have added greater depth to his work to invoke the indigenous accounts of European sexual interactions. He for examples mentions the accounts of Georg Forster and Bounty mutineer James Morrison who confirmed the practice of what we now term 'pedophilia' by European sailors. Whether sex with pubescent or post-pubescent teenagers was practiced in certain Polynesians is a rather ambiguous detail that Sturma doesn't touch upon. Generally speaking, this book is a great overview of European fascination and exoticization of the indigenous women of Oceania. Sturma does a reasonably good job of evaluating shifting gender roles in European society and how the cultures of the Pacific functioned as an outlet for subversion or aversion of these gender roles in cross-cultural relationships between Europeans and indigenous peoples. The bibiography Sturma supplies is very abundant and I look forward to further reading up on his cited sources.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-07-31 00:00:00 Paul W. Rauschenbach good compilation on the subject! helpful reference.