Word: kaahumanu
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...world where sexual orientation is polarized into heterosexuality and homosexuality, bisexuality comes as a disturbing challenge, at once a riddle and a discomfort. "It threatens rigidity," says Lani Kaahumanu, a bisexual activist in San Francisco. "It threatens both sides of the framework." Bisexuals often inspire nervousness, distaste and hostility in both straights and gays and are all but ignored by scholars...
...other women, bisexuality is a late discovery. "Many never had any sexual attraction to other women," notes psychiatrist Tim Wolf of San Diego. "But now they are in their 30s or 50s, and they fall in love with a particular woman." Lani Kaahumanu was a typical San Mateo, Calif., housewife, wed to her high school sweetheart for 11 years and the mother of two children. With the women's movement of the '70s, "all of a sudden there was this freedom to love women," says Kaahumanu, 48. She divorced and for four years lived what she calls a "very public...
Thereafter, he became an enlightened monarch who seemed to want to repopulate the islands, as it were, singlehanded. (Estimated score: 21 wives, numerous concubines, more than 50 offspring.) His enduring love, his Guinevere, was Kaahumanu, a stout sexpot to whom he always returned...
Tregaskis achieves a myopic happy ending. When Kamehameha died, he left his dynasty seemingly secure in the hands of a crown prince with the Lady Kaahumanu as regent. Even a short-ranged epilogue would have shown the dynasty and the island's culture disintegrating under the white man's burden of greed and commerce. ∎Laurence I. Barrett
...deal with Captain Paulet. The British officer became so oppressive that Dr. Judd, unable to negotiate further with him, withdrew to the royal mausoleum in the palace yard. There by the uncertain light of a ship's lantern, Dr. Judd carried on government business using the coffin of Queen Kaahumanu (1824-1832) for a desk. His messages of protest, smuggled out of the tomb and carried overseas, brought repudiation of Captain Paulet by the British Government and his withdrawal from the Islands...
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