Engendering Violence in Papua New Guinea.

Intro -- Preface - Christine Stewart -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Prologue: The Place of 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: Shades 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 to 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 Sex 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 -- Contributors -- Index.

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.

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