Gender and power in the Pacific : women's strategies in a world of change / edited by Katarina Ferro and Margit Wolfsberger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ferro, Katarina.

Wolfsberger, Margit.

Series:

Novara ; v. 2.

Novara ; v. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Islands of the Pacific.

Women.

Women--Islands of the Pacific--Social conditions--20th century.

Women in public life--Islands of the Pacific.

Women in public life.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

240 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Münster ; London : Lit, 2003.

Contents:

"In Papua New Guinea we never talk about gender." Traditional male and female roles and gender relations in modern society / Berit Gustafsson

Der Kontrast zur Diversifikation: die androzentrischen Machtstrukturen in Papua-Neuguinea / Gerit Gönitzer

Gender and consumption in the Aluni Valley, Southern Highlands Province - Papua New Guinea / Gabriele Stuerzenhofecker

"Bitang ma bitang." Geschlechterbalance und Modernisierung in Palau / Claudia Lauterbach

Growing old in Aotearoa/New Zealand: Maori women's perceptions of aging / Christine Binder-Fritz

Land, notions of "home" and cultural space: the location and articulation of power and gender in Maori society / Helene Connor

Inseln der Desillusion. Weibliche Blicke auf die Südsee / Gabriele Habinger

Book review: Körper, religion und Macht: Sozialanthropologie der Geschlechterbeziehungen / Margit Wolfsberger

Book review: Bitter sweet. Indigenous women in the Pacific / Katarina Ferro.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

3825867102

OCLC:

52784494