2025/01/01 by Batterbury, Simon · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Gender, Security, and Conflict #Island Studies and Pacific Affairs #New Caledonia Indigenous Studies
paper · doi:10.26021/16135
openalex publication_date 2025/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/11/19 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/14
This book is a comparative study of an underreported issue: violence against women in the Pacific, with a focus on New Caledonia, Bougainville and Fiji. George’s major message, developed from many years of fieldwork and engagement with feminist movements, is that we cannot rely on the state alone to reduce levels of exposure to violence experienced by women in the Pacific. In this respect, if women are currently suffering aggression and violence in the domestic sphere, then decolonization and new state formations established across the Pacific in recent decades have been disappointing. The notable strengthening of women’s political representation in many Pacific nations has not resolved these issues in households and communities.