Engendering violence in Papua New Guinea / edited by Margaret Jolly and Christine Stewart with Carolyn Brewer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jolly, Margaret, 1949- editor.

Stewart, Christine, editor.

Brewer, Carolyn, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Family violence.

Family violence--Papua New Guinea.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Canberra, Australia : ANU E Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

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 analysing the dynamic processes of 'engendering' violence in PNG.

Contents:

Preface - Christine Stewart; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Prologue: The Place of Papua New Guinea in Contours of Gender Violence - Margaret Jolly; Introduction-Engendering Violence in Papua New Guinea: Persons, Power and Perilous Transformations - Margaret Jolly; 1. Black and Blue: Shades of Violence in West New Britain, PNG - Naomi McPherson; 2. Troubled Masculinities and Gender Violence in Melanesia - Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi; 3. Engendered Violence and Witch-killing in Simbu - Philip Gibbs

4. Becoming Mary: Marian Devotion as a Solution to Gender-based Violence in Urban PNG - Anna-Karina Hermkens5. Engendering Violence in the Papua New Guinea Courts: Sentencing in Rape Trials - Jean G. Zorn; 6. Conversations with Convicted Rapists - Fiona Hukula; 7. 'Crime to be a Woman?': Engendering Violence against Female Sex Workers in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea - Christine Stewart; 8. Gender Violence in Melanesia and the Problem of Millennium Development Goal No. 3 - Martha Macintyre; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 28, 2016).

ISBN:

9781921862861

1921862866

OCLC:

953922434

Publisher Number:

10.26530/OAPEN_459830

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access