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Engendering violence in Papua New Guinea / edited by Margaret Jolly, Christine Stewart, Carolyn Brewer

Contributor(s): Jolly, Margaret [editor] | Stewart, Christine [editor] | Brewer, Carolyn [editor].
Material type: materialTypeLabelArticleCanberra : Australian National University E-Press, 2012Description: xxvii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781921862854.DDC classification: 362.829209953
Contents:
Content: The place of Papua New Guinea: gender violence / Margaret Jolly Black and blue: shades of violence in west New Britain, PNG / Naomi McPherson Troubled masculinities and gender violence in Melanesia / Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi Engendered violence and with-killing in Simbu / Philip Gibbs Becoming Mary: Marian devotion as a solution to gender-based violence in urban PNG / Anna-Karina Hermkens Engendering violence in Papua New Guinea courts: sentencing in rape trials / Jean G. Zorn Conversations with convicted rapists / Fiona Hukula 'Crime to be a woman?': engendering violence against female sex workers in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea / Christine Stewart Gender violence in Melanesia and the problem of Millennium Development Goal no. 3 / Martha Macintyre.
Summary: Summary: "This collection builds on previous works on gender violence in the Pacific, but goes beyond some previous approaches to ‘domestic violence’ or ‘violence against women’ in analyzing the dynamic processes of ‘engendering’ violence in PNG. ‘Engendering’ refers not just to the sex of individual actors, but to gender as a crucial relation in collective life and the massive social transformations ongoing in PNG: conversion to Christianity, the development of extractive industries, the implanting of introduced models of justice and the law and the spread of HIV. Hence the collection examines issues of ‘troubled masculinities’ as much as ‘battered women’ and tries to move beyond the black and white binaries of blaming either tradition or modernity as the primary cause of gender violence. It relates original scholarly research in the villages and towns of PNG to questions of policy and practice and reveals the complexities and contestations in the local translation of concepts of human rights. It will interest undergraduate and graduate students in gender studies and Pacific studies and those working on the policy and practice of combating gender violence in PNG and elsewhere"--Publisher's website.
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Content:
The place of Papua New Guinea: gender violence / Margaret Jolly
Black and blue: shades of violence in west New Britain, PNG / Naomi McPherson
Troubled masculinities and gender violence in Melanesia / Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi
Engendered violence and with-killing in Simbu / Philip Gibbs
Becoming Mary: Marian devotion as a solution to gender-based violence in urban PNG / Anna-Karina Hermkens
Engendering violence in Papua New Guinea courts: sentencing in rape trials / Jean G. Zorn
Conversations with convicted rapists / Fiona Hukula
'Crime to be a woman?': engendering violence against female sex workers in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea / Christine Stewart
Gender violence in Melanesia and the problem of Millennium Development Goal no. 3 / Martha Macintyre.

Summary:
"This collection builds on previous works on gender violence in the Pacific, but goes beyond some previous approaches to ‘domestic violence’ or ‘violence against women’ in analyzing the dynamic processes of ‘engendering’ violence in PNG. ‘Engendering’ refers not just to the sex of individual actors, but to gender as a crucial relation in collective life and the massive social transformations ongoing in PNG: conversion to Christianity, the development of extractive industries, the implanting of introduced models of justice and the law and the spread of HIV. Hence the collection examines issues of ‘troubled masculinities’ as much as ‘battered women’ and tries to move beyond the black and white binaries of blaming either tradition or modernity as the primary cause of gender violence. It relates original scholarly research in the villages and towns of PNG to questions of policy and practice and reveals the complexities and contestations in the local translation of concepts of human rights. It will interest undergraduate and graduate students in gender studies and Pacific studies and those working on the policy and practice of combating gender violence in PNG and elsewhere"--Publisher's website.

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