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

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

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume)
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Note Print version record.
Contents Preface / Christine Stewart -- Prologue: The place 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 : shakes 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 gender-based violence in urban PNG / Anna-Karina Hermkens -- 5. 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 xex 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.
Language 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.
Subject Family violence -- Papua New Guinea.
Social psychology -- Papua New Guinea.
Social adjustment -- Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea -- Social conditions.
Violence familiale -- Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée.
Psychologie sociale -- Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée.
Adaptation sociale -- Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée.
Social issues and processes.
Society and culture: general.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
Violence in society.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
Family violence
Social adjustment
Social conditions
Social psychology
Papua New Guinea https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJxrW6PwDKMhdgFpg3XDbd
Indexed Term violence against women.
papua new guinea.
women's right.
Added Author Jolly, Margaret, 1949-
Stewart, Christine.
Brewer, Carolyn.
Other Form: Print version: Engendering violence in Papua New Guinea. Acton, A.C.T. : ANU E Press, 2012 9781921862854 (OCoLC)782132044
ISBN 9781921862861 (electronic bk.)
1921862866 (electronic bk.)
9781921862854 (pbk.)
1921862858 (pbk.)
Standard No. 10.26530/OAPEN_459830 doi
AU@ 000050867103
GBVCP 1008657530
GBVCP 865754152
NZ1 14314333
AU@ 000069193209

 
    
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