The Aboriginal male in the Enlightenment world.

London & New York : Routledge, 2016. Series: The Body, Gender and Culture. Octavo (235 x 155 mm), publisher’s printed yellow wrappers; pp. ix, 231; illustrated with 8 b/w plates, maps; an as new copy.

‘This is the first historical study of indigenous Australian masculinity. Using the reactions of eighteenth-century western explorers to Aboriginal men, Konishi argues that these encounters were not as negative as has been thought.’ (publisher)

Chapter headings: Skin; Hair; Face; Carnal Bodies; Martial Bodies; Communicating Bodies; Indolent Bodies; Testing Bodies.