Since its inception in 1928, the Pan-Pacific Women's Association (PPWA) has witnessed and contributed to enormous changes in world and Pacific history. Operating out of Honolulu, this women's network established a series of conferences that promoted social reform and an internationalist outlook thro
Glamour in the Pacific: Cultural Internatioinalism & Race Politics in the Women's Pan-Pacific
β Scribed by Fiona Paisley
- Publisher
- University of Hawaii Press
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 306
- Series
- Perspectives on the Global Past
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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