Preface / Christine Stewart -- Prologue: The place 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 : shakes 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 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 xex 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
Summary
This collection builds on previous works on gender violence in the Pacific, but goes beyond some previous approaches to 'domestic violence' or 'violence
