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George, Nicole Louise, 1966- author.

Title Situating women : gender politics and circumstance in Fiji / Nicole George.

Imprint	Acton, A.C.T. : ANU E Press, 2012.
Publication Info.	©2012

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Description	1 online resource
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Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
Contents	Introduction: Situating women -- 1. A feel for context: contingency and women's collective agency -- 2. 'A new frontier': pioneering gender politics in Fiji's independence era -- 3. Beyond the 'new frontier'? Fiji's decade for women: 1976-1985 -- 4. 'Foreign flowers'? articulating rights in the post-coup political economy: 1985-1995 -- 5. 'A gentler political engagement': 1995-2002 -- 6. 'Working in a different way now': division and peacebuilding in the aftermath of the 'good governance' coup -- Gender politics and circumstance: some contingent conclusions.
Summary	Since the time of decolonisation in Fiji, women's organisations have navigated a complex political terrain. While they have stayed true to the aim of advancing women's status, their work has been buffeted by national political upheavals and changing global and regional directions in development policy-making. This book documents how women activists have understood and responded to these challenges. It is the first book to write women into Fiji's postcolonial history, providing a detailed historical account of that country's gender politics across four tumultuous decades. It is also the first to examine the 'situated' nature of gender advocacy in the Pacific Islands more broadly. It does this by analysing trends in activity, from women's radical and provocative activism of the 1960s to a more self-evaluative and reflexive mood of engagement in later decades, showing how interplaying global and local factors can shape women's understandings of gender justice and their pursuit of that goal.
Language	English.
Subject	Women -- Political activity -- Fiji.
	Women in development -- Fiji.
	Sex discrimination against women -- Fiji.
	Women's rights -- Fiji.
	Women -- Government policy -- Fiji.
	Femmes -- Activité politique -- Fidji.
	Femmes dans le développement -- Fidji.
	Discrimination à l'égard des femmes -- Fidji.
	Femmes -- Droits -- Fidji.
	Femmes -- Politique gouvernementale -- Fidji.
	Gender studies, gender groups.
	Gender studies: women.
	Social groups.
	Society and culture: general.
	Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
	Sex discrimination against women
	Women -- Government policy
	Women in development
	Women -- Political activity
	Women's rights
	Fiji https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJmdwRTwxhYwgKWpwd8jYP
Indexed Term	Women's studies
	Fiji
Other Form:	Print version: George, Nicole Louise, 1966- Situating women : gender politics and circumstance in Fiji. Canberra, Australian Capital Territory : Australian National University E Press, 2012 9781922144140
ISBN	9781922144157 (electronic bk.)
	1922144150 (electronic bk.)
	9781922144140 (pbk.)
	1922144142 (pbk.)
Standard No.	459879
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Report No.	(Coutts)024606336
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