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020 $a9781760460884
024 7 $a10.22459/WIWCRC.01.2017 [2]$2doi
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245 10 $aTranformations of Gender in Melanesia
260 $a$bANU Press$c2017
520 $aDespite 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? 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.
546 $aEnglish.
650 7 $aMelanesia$2bicssc
650 7 $aSociety & culture: general$2bicssc
650 7 $aSocial discrimination & inequality$2bicssc
650 7 $aGender studies, gender groups$2bicssc
653 $apacific
653 $agender
653 $amelanesia
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