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work_myd5v7hdgndwpkuxwiqmaulq7e	Helen Gardner	Emily J. Manktelow. Gender, Power and Sexual Abuse in the Pacific: Rev. Simpson's "Improper Liberties." London: Bloomsbury, 2018. Pp. 256. $114.00 (cloth)	2019	2	.pdf	application/pdf	1287	76	61	Unavoidably, the book conveys something of Boole's attitude to mathematics. Gender, Power and Sexual Abuse in the Pacific: Rev. Simpson's "Improper Simpson of the London Missionary Society in the Tahitian field sexually abused many of Yet the charges were a deep shock to the London-based mission society for whom Tahiti was Manktelow's new study, we follow the minutiae of this process, learning Manktelow's analysis of this event is both innovative and wide-ranging, as much a meditation on history writing as on the events of Tahiti in the mid-nineteenth century. Her historiography of sexual violence begins with Susan Brownmiller's landmark study on rape, Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape (1975), and the subsequent debate on the prevalence of this abuse through history. Manktelow's deep subjectivity ensures the book is not only a polemic. Manktelow explores the suspicion of missionary children seemingly tainted by In the final chapter, Manktelow focuses on the legacies of British colonialism and efforts to Manktelow's exemplary analysis of sexual violence in the	./cache/work_myd5v7hdgndwpkuxwiqmaulq7e.pdf	./txt/work_myd5v7hdgndwpkuxwiqmaulq7e.txt