Situating Women
Gender Politics and Circumstance in Fiji
Authored by: Nicole GeorgePlease read Conditions of use before downloading the formats.
Description
Since the time of decolonisation in Fiji, women’s organisations have navigated a complex political terrain. While they have stayed true to the aim of advancing women’s status, their work has been buffeted by national political upheavals and changing global and regional directions in development policy-making. This book documents how women activists have understood and responded to these challenges. It is the first book to write women into Fiji’s postcolonial history, providing a detailed historical account of that country’s gender politics across four tumultuous decades. It is also the first to examine the ‘situated’ nature of gender advocacy in the Pacific Islands more broadly. It does this by analysing trends in activity, from women’s radical and provocative activism of the 1960s to a more self-evaluative and reflexive mood of engagement in later decades, showing how interplaying global and local factors can shape women’s understandings of gender justice and their pursuit of that goal.
Details
- ISBN (print):
- 9781922144140
- ISBN (online):
- 9781922144157
- Publication date:
- Nov 2012
- Imprint:
- ANU Press
- DOI:
- http://doi.org/10.22459/SW.11.2012
- Disciplines:
- Social Sciences: Development Studies, Gender Studies, Politics & International Studies, Social Policy & Administration
- Countries:
- Pacific: Fiji
PDF Chapters
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- Preliminary (PDF, 242KB)
- Dedication (PDF, 54KB)
- Maps and Illustrations (PDF, 77KB)
- Acknowledgements (PDF, 99KB)
- Abbreviations and Acronyms (PDF, 107KB)
- Introduction: Situating Women (PDF, 530KB)
- A Feel for Context: Contingency and Women’s Collective Agency (PDF, 303KB)
- ‘A New Frontier’: Pioneering Gender Politics in Fiji’s Independence Era (PDF, 3.0MB)
- Beyond the ‘New Frontier’? Fiji’s Decade for Women: 1976–1985 (PDF, 252KB)
- ‘Foreign Flowers’? Articulating Rights in the Post-Coup Political Economy: 1985–1995 (PDF, 1.0MB)
- ‘A Gentler Political Engagement’: 1995–2002 (PDF, 2.8MB)
- ‘Working in a Different Way Now’: Division and Peacebuilding in the Aftermath of the ‘Good Governance’ Coup (PDF, 2.9MB)
Reviews
In the Journal of Pacific History, Teresia Teaiwa reviews Situating Women: Gender Politics and Circumstance in Fiji by Nicole George.
Teaiwa describes Fiji as a significant area of concentration for women’s activism in the Pacific in recent decades, and finds it surprising that more has not been written on this subject. Teaiwa finds George’s text “helpful” in “stepping into the breach”, while at the same time expressing hope that more will be written on Fijian activist women.
Teaiwa finds that “the book attempts to convey some of the complex politics of race, ethnicity and culture that have shaped the ability of women to engage in national and international forums of agenda-setting and decision-making”. She goes on to say that the book has “captured a valuable range of generational, organizational and political perspectives”.
(Teresia Teaiwa, review of Situating Women: Gender Politics and Circumstance in Fiji by Nicole George, Journal of Pacific History, 50:1, pp. 99–101.)
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