Special thanks to my writing group Sonya Hsieh and Eleni Azarias for all their helpful advice on this essay.
I. Images
Gauguin, Paul. Contes Barbares. Museum Folkwang, Essen. 1902.
Gauguin, Paul. Vahine no te Tiare. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen. 1891.
Gauguin, Paul. Vahine no to Vi. The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Cone Collection. 1892.
Gauguin, Paul. Te Rerioa. Courtauld Institute Galleries, London. 1897.
Gauguin, Paul. Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 1897-98.
II. Texts
Donahue, Suzanne M. “Exoticism and Androgyny in Gauguin.� Aurora: The Journal of the History of Art. Volume I (2000) pp. 103
Eichner, Carolyn J. “’VIVE LA COMMUNE!’: Feminism, Socialism, and Revolutionary Revival in the Aftermath of the 1871 Paris Commune.� Journal of Women’s History. 15.2 (Summer 2003) pp. 68.
Eisenman, Stephen. Gauguin’s Skirt. New York: Thames and Hudson. 1997.
Gauguin, Paul. Noa Noa.(tran. O.F. Theis) New York: Nicholas Brown. 1919.
Goldwater, Robert. Paul Gauguin. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 1928.
Mathews, Nancy Mowll. Paul Gauguin: An Erotic Life. New Haven , CT and London: Yale University Press. 2001. pp. 197, 229, 244.
Simon, Marie. Fashion in Art: The Second Empire and Impressionism. Paris: Editions Hazan. 1995. pp. 21, 158.
Wallace, Lee. Sexual Encounters: Pacific Texts Modern Sexualities. Ithatca, NY and London: Cornell University Press. 2003. pp. 132.