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Weinbaum, Batya S. "Islands of Women and Amazons: Representations and Realities," American Studies Program, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, March 1996.
Historically, myths have existed about the separate existences of women, including the Sirens that sang on the Aegean rocks; the Amazons in the Brazilian jungles; the islands of self-reproducing women in Polynesia; and utopias such as Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland. This thesis explores some variant existences and congruent ideas and images of the archetype, revealing that the theme itself is neither progressive nor reactionary, but can represent different psychological needs arising from different historical contexts. This work sheds light on certain texts considered classics of that genre, providing new prisms to view political feminist material through. A particular focus centers on portrayal and development of this imagery in tourism on Isla Mujeres, off the Yucatan coast, Mexico, in the Caribbean.
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