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17May25

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.


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