| Description |
1 online resource (1 volume) |
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data file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
This collection builds on previous works on gender violence in the Pacific, but goes beyond some previous approaches to 'domestic violence' or 'violence. |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Family violence -- Papua New Guinea.
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Family violence. |
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Papua New Guinea. |
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Social psychology -- Papua New Guinea.
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Social psychology. |
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Social adjustment -- Papua New Guinea.
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Social adjustment. |
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Papua New Guinea -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
| Indexed Term |
violence against women. |
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papua new guinea. |
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women's right. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Jolly, Margaret, 1949-
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Stewart-Nuñez, Christine.
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Brewer, Carolyn.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Engendering violence in Papua New Guinea. Acton, A.C.T. : ANU E Press, 2012 9781921862854 (OCoLC)782132044 |
| ISBN |
9781921862861 (electronic book) |
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1921862866 (electronic book) |
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9781921862854 (paperback) |
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1921862858 (paperback) |
| Standard No. |
10.26530/OAPEN_459830 |
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