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Emergent Masculinities in the Pacific focuses on the plasticity and
contingent nature of Pacific Island masculinities over the course
of colonial and postcolonial histories. The several case histories
concern the use of sports to recuperate but also refashion past
masculinities in the name of contemporary masculine pride; the
effects of market participation on younger males; how urbanisation
and migration set the stage for experimenting with male gender and
sexuality; the impacts of military and labour histories on local
masculinities; masculinity and violence in war and gender violence;
and structural violence and disruptions in male gender identity.
Depicting contemporary Pacific Island societies as a space of
gender invention and pluralism as indigenous gender regimes respond
to the stimulations of transnational flows, the book asks a key
historical question: Do emergent masculinities signal a rupture, or
some continuity with, past masculinities? This book was originally
published as a special double issue of The Asia Pacific Journal of
Anthropology.
Emergent Masculinities in the Pacific focuses on the plasticity and
contingent nature of Pacific Island masculinities over the course
of colonial and postcolonial histories. The several case histories
concern the use of sports to recuperate but also refashion past
masculinities in the name of contemporary masculine pride; the
effects of market participation on younger males; how urbanisation
and migration set the stage for experimenting with male gender and
sexuality; the impacts of military and labour histories on local
masculinities; masculinity and violence in war and gender violence;
and structural violence and disruptions in male gender identity.
Depicting contemporary Pacific Island societies as a space of
gender invention and pluralism as indigenous gender regimes respond
to the stimulations of transnational flows, the book asks a key
historical question: Do emergent masculinities signal a rupture, or
some continuity with, past masculinities? This book was originally
published as a special double issue of The Asia Pacific Journal of
Anthropology.
First Published in 2004. As the new millennium leaves behind the
most violent of centuries, human rights activists and international
agencies are looking to a new Age of Rights. Feminists have been
prominent among those struggling 'from below' to reconstruct human
rights: the slogan 'women's rights are human rights' has become a
central claim of the global women's movement; feminist theorists
have argued for an explicit inclusion of women and gender in human
rights tenets; and United Nations forums have become central sites
of an energetic new global feminist 'public', providing
unprecedented avenues for feminist initiatives and action. It is
clear, however, that feminist re-shapings of human rights have been
engaged in complex conversations with both human rights claims and
with feminist and gender politics in all their many local versions.
The contributors to this volume address these complex conversations
through a number of case studies within the Asia-Pacific region.
Contrary to their masculine portrayal, mines have always employed
women in valuable and productive roles. Yet, pit life continues to
be represented as a masculine world of work, legitimizing men as
the only mineworkers and large, mechanized, and capitalized
operations as the only form of mining. Bringing together a range of
case studies of women miners from past and present in Asia, the
Pacific region, Latin America and Africa, this book makes visible
the roles and contributions of women as miners. It also highlights
the importance of engendering small and informal mining in the
developing world as compared to the early European and American
mines. The book shows that women are engaged in various kinds of
mining and illustrates how gender and inequality are constructed
and sustained in the mines, and also how ethnic identities
intersect with those gendered identities.
First Published in 2004. As the new millennium leaves behind the
most violent of centuries, human rights activists and international
agencies are looking to a new Age of Rights. Feminists have been
prominent among those struggling 'from below' to reconstruct human
rights: the slogan 'women's rights are human rights' has become a
central claim of the global women's movement; feminist theorists
have argued for an explicit inclusion of women and gender in human
rights tenets; and United Nations forums have become central sites
of an energetic new global feminist 'public', providing
unprecedented avenues for feminist initiatives and action. It is
clear, however, that feminist re-shapings of human rights have been
engaged in complex conversations with both human rights claims and
with feminist and gender politics in all their many local versions.
The contributors to this volume address these complex conversations
through a number of case studies within the Asia-Pacific region.
In recent years, the slogan "women's rights are human rights" has become a central claim of the of the global women's movement. Human Rights and Gender Politics: Asia-Pacific Perspectives examines the critical issues raised by this embracing and expansion of the human rights discourse by feminists worldwide. This volume challenges the conventional, ungendered and male-centred analysis of the politics of human rights and addresses the future of global feminisms. It is essential reading for all those interested in learning more about human rights and women's rights in the Asia-Pacific region.
Contrary to their masculine portrayal, mines have always employed
women in valuable and productive roles. Yet, pit life continues to
be represented as a masculine world of work, legitimizing men as
the only mineworkers and large, mechanized, and capitalized
operations as the only form of mining. Bringing together a range of
case studies of women miners from past and present in Asia, the
Pacific region, Latin America and Africa, this book makes visible
the roles and contributions of women as miners. It also highlights
the importance of engendering small and informal mining in the
developing world as compared to the early European and American
mines. The book shows that women are engaged in various kinds of
mining and illustrates how gender and inequality are constructed
and sustained in the mines, and also how ethnic identities
intersect with those gendered identities.
The combined forces of mission evangelism and colonial intervention
have transformed the everyday family life of Pacific peoples. The
dramatic changes that affected the political and economic autonomy
of indigenous people in the region also had significant effects on
domestic life. This book, originally published in 1989, examines
the ways in which this happened. Using the insights of history and
anthropology, chapters cover a wide range of geographical range,
extending from Hawaii to Australia. The authors examine changes in
medicine and health, religious beliefs, architecture and
settlement, and the restructuring of the domestic realm. The book
raises issues of concern to a wide range of interests: the peoples
and history of the Pacific, the broader questions of colonialism
and missionary endeavour, and the changing structure of the family.
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