Engendering Violence in Papua New Guinea
Edited by: Margaret Jolly
, Christine Stewart, Carolyn BrewerPlease read Conditions of use before downloading the formats.
Description
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.
Details
- ISBN (print):
- 9781921862854
- ISBN (online):
- 9781921862861
- Publication date:
- Jul 2012
- Imprint:
- ANU Press
- DOI:
- http://doi.org/10.22459/EVPNG.07.2012
- Disciplines:
- Arts & Humanities: Cultural Studies; Social Sciences: Anthropology, Gender Studies, Social Policy & Administration
- Countries:
- Pacific: Papua New Guinea
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- Preliminary pages (PDF, 178KB)
- Preface (PDF, 93KB) – Christine Stewart
- Acknowledgements (PDF, 66KB)
- Abbreviations and Acronyms (PDF, 56KB)
- Prologue: The Place of Papua New Guinea in Contours of Gender Violence (PDF, 511KB) – Margaret Jolly
- Introduction— Engendering Violence in Papua New Guinea: Persons, Power and Perilous Transformations (PDF, 702KB) – Margaret Jolly
- Black and Blue: Shades of Violence in West New Britain, PNG (PDF, 668KB) – Naomi McPherson doi
- Troubled Masculinities and Gender Violence in Melanesia (PDF, 1.4MB) – Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi doi
- Engendered Violence and Witch-killing in Simbu (PDF, 1.2MB) – Philip Gibbs doi
- Becoming Mary: Marian Devotion as a Solution to Gender-based Violence in Urban PNG (PDF, 1.3MB) – Anna-Karina Hermkens doi
- Engendering Violence in the Papua New Guinea Courts: Sentencing in Rape Trials (PDF, 1.7MB) – Jean G. Zorn doi
- Conversations with Convicted Rapists (PDF, 972KB) – Fiona Hukula doi
- ‘Crime to be a Woman?’: Engendering Violence against Female Sex Workers in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea (PDF, 1.7MB) – Christine Stewart doi
- Gender Violence in Melanesia and the Problem of Millennium Development Goal No. 3 (PDF, 239KB) – Martha Macintyre doi
Reviews
In Pacific Affairs: Volume 87, No. 2, 2 June 2014, Penelope Schoeffel reviews Margaret Jolly, Christine Stewart and Carolyn Brewer’s collection Engendering Violence in Papua New Guinea. Schoeffel describes the book as “timely” (p394), linking the book to the current international conversation regarding Papua New Guinea following “incidents in several provinces involving the torture, beheading or burning of women accused of witchcraft.” (p394)
Schoeffel touches on the book’s themes of “the country’s fraught colonial and post-colonial history” and “uneasy juxtapositions of old and new religious values and economic forces” (p394), and briefly highlights each essay’s central concern, concluding:
Violence against women is the ultimate expression of gender inequality and the disempowerment of women, and these essays all suggest that change will only occur when men are required to give up privileges that are currently maintained by the threat of violence. (p396)
The review can be found on Pacific Affairs’ book reviews page for this issue.
(Penelope Schoeffel, review of Engendering Violence in Papua New Guinea, by Margaret Jolly, Christine Stewart and Carolyn Brewer, Pacific Affairs: Volume 87, No. 2, 2 June 2014, pp. 394–396.)
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