Women and Men of Fiji Islands
Author : Dharma Chandra
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 35,65 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Dharma Chandra
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 35,65 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Peggy Reeves Sanday
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 38,77 MB
Release : 1986-07-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780521311144
A new approach to understanding the phenomenon of ritual cannibalism through a detailed examination of selected tribal societies demonstrates that the practice is closely linked to people's orientation to the world, and helps distinguish "cultural self."
Author : Diane Michalski Turner
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,78 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Matailobau (Fiji)
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Author : Marshall David Sahlins
Publisher :
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 22,92 MB
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Author : Nicole George
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 20,57 MB
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1922144150
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.
Author : Wadan Narsey
Publisher :
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 48,14 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Discrimination in employment
ISBN :
Focuses on gender issues arising out of the 2004-05 Employment and Unemployment Survey.
Author : Aletta Biersack
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 21,88 MB
Release : 2016-12-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1760460710
The postcolonial states of Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu operate today in a global arena in which human rights are widely accepted. As ratifiers of UN treaties such as the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, these Pacific Island countries have committed to promoting women’s and girls’ rights, including the right to a life free of violence. Yet local, national and regional gender values are not always consistent with the principles of gender equality and women’s rights that undergird these globalising conventions. This volume critically interrogates the relation between gender violence and human rights as these three countries and their communities and citizens engage with, appropriate, modify and at times resist human rights principles and their implications for gender violence. Grounded in extensive anthropological, historical and legal research, the volume should prove a crucial resource for the many scholars, policymakers and activists who are concerned about the urgent and ubiquitous problem of gender violence in the western Pacific. ‘This is an important and timely collection that is central to the major and contentious issues in the contemporary Pacific of gender violence and human rights. It builds upon existing literature … but the contributors to this volume interrogate the connection between these two areas deeply and more critically … This book should and must reach a broad audience.’ — Jacqui Leckie, Associate Professor, Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Otago ‘The volume addresses the tensions between human and cultural, individual and collective rights, as played out in the domain of gender … Gender is a perfect lens for exploring these tensions because cultural rights are often claimed in defence of gender oppression and because women often have imposed upon them the burden of representing cultural traditions in attire, comportment, restraint or putatively cultural conservatism. And Melanesia is a perfect place to consider these gendered issues because of the long history of ethnocentric representations of the region, because of the extent to which these are played out between states and local cultures and because of the efforts of the vibrant women’s movements in the region to develop locally workable responses to the problems of gender violence in these communities.’ — Christine Dureau, Senior Lecturer, Anthropology, University of Auckland
Author : Luis Marden
Publisher :
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 11,15 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Fiji
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Page : 82 pages
File Size : 34,93 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
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Provides a brief description of the country setting and an overview of the socio-demographic situation of women. Examines women's roles and responsibilities in economic, public, and family life vis-à-vis those of men.
Author : Geir Presterudstuen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 15,95 MB
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1000181162
Geir Henning Presterudstuen provides an ethnographic account of howmen in the multicultural urban centres of Fiji perceive, construct andperform masculinities in the context of rapid social change. Theoreticallyinformed by critical feminist theories, postcolonialism, R.W. Connell’s workon masculinities and a Bourdieuan conceptualization of the body, thisbook explores how notions of masculinity, manhood and the male bodyare shaped by the conflicting social forces of Fijian tradition, modernity,commercialization and urbanization.The book provides a timely intervention, from the grassroots level in theglobal south, into an ongoing discourse about men and masculinities thathas long been dominated by voices from Europe and the US. Combiningclassic ethnography with innovative social analysis, Presterudstuen’sbook is suitable for students and academics with an interest in genderand social change, and for scholars across a variety of disciplinesincluding anthropology, gender studies, sociology, pacific studies andinternational development.