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Transformations Of Gender In Melanesia
Paperback Edition: 1
Despite the plethora of research on gender and the many projects designed to improve their status in the Pacific region, women continue to be disadvantaged and marginalised in social, economic and political spheres. How are we to understand this and what does it mean for
researchers, policy-makers and development practitioners?
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This book examines these questions, partly by looking back but also by continuing the effort to explain and understand gender inequities in the Pacific through reference to the concept of societies in transition. The contributors discuss emerging masculinities and femininities in the Pacific in order to chart the development of these in their contexts. Exploring how contemporary Pacific identities are shaped by local contexts and traditions, they focus on how these are remade through interaction with global ideas, images and practices, including new forms of Christianity and economic transformations. Grounded in recent, original research in both the villages and towns of Melanesia, the collection engages with the study of gender in Melanesia as well as scholarship on global modernities.
Featured in the 20 Febuary 2017 New Zealand Newsletter.
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Pages : 189
Publisher : ANU Press
Publication date : 2017-02-01
Subjects: Non-fiction, Pasifika, Melanesia