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Engendering Violence in Papua New Guinea by Margaret Jolly, Christine Stewart, Carolyn Brewer is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Engendering Violence in Papua New Guinea about?

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. 'Engendering' refers not just to the sex of individual actors, but to gender as a crucial relation in collective life and the massive social transformations ongoing in PNG: conversion to Christianity, the development of extractive industries, the implanting of introduced models of justice and the law and the spread of HIV. Hence the collection examines issues of 'troubled masculinities' as much as 'battered women' and tries to move beyond the black and white binaries of blaming either tradition or modernity as the primary cause of gender violence. It relates original scholarly research in the villages and towns of PNG to questions of policy and practice and reveals the complexities and contestations in the local translation of concepts of human rights. It will interest undergraduate and graduate students in gender studies and Pacific studies and those working on the policy and practice of combating gender violence in PNG and elsewhere

Who reads Engendering Violence in Papua New Guinea?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Margaret Jolly, Christine Stewart, Carolyn Brewer
Publisher
ANU E Press
Published
2012
Language
EN
ISBN
9781921862854
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Science, Psychology, Gender Studies

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