Josephine's Journey: Gender‐based Violence and Marian Devotion in Urban Papua New Guinea

Hermkens, Anna‐Karina

doi:10.1002/j.1834-4461.2008.tb00035.x

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“…These key social drivers of HIV, however, are not fully understood in PNG and require further examination. High rates of gender‐based violence have been shown to be damaging for women's health in PNG and, in combination with economic and social marginalisation, increase women's vulnerability to HIV (Hermkens, 2008; Lepani, 2008). Understanding the health of women in PNG requires attention and sensitivity to the ways in which women's perspectives of health juxtapose with the realities of their daily life.…”

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Assessing women's understandings of health in rural Papua New Guinea: Implications for health policy and practice

Hinton

Earnest

2011

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

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In Papua New Guinea (PNG), women's health is addressed by applying biomedical solutions which often ignore the complexity of women's histories, cultural contexts and lived experiences. The objective of this study was to examine adult and older women's perceptions of health and well-being to identify priority areas for public service interventions. Rapid ethnographic assessment was conducted in the Wosera district, a rural area of PNG from mid-2005 to early 2006, to examine the health concerns of women. Twenty-seven adult women and 10 older women participated in the study. Health was not limited to one aspect of a woman's life, such as their biology or maternal roles; it was also connected with the social, cultural and spiritual dimensions of women's daily existence. Participants also identified access to money and supportive interpersonal relationships as significant for good health. A disconnect was found to exist between women's understandings of good health and socio-political health policies in PNG, something likely to be repeated in health service delivery to different cultural groups across the Asia Pacific region. Health and development practitioners in PNG must become responsive to the complexity of women's social relationships and to issues relating to the context of women's empowerment in their programmes.

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Assessing women's understandings of health in rural Papua New Guinea: Implications for health policy and practice

Hinton

Earnest

2011

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

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“…Although the role of the Church has varied effects on the definition of personhood throughout PNG, including the role of men and women in married life (Mosko 2015;Robbins 2007), it was not the main influence on the traditional forms of the marriage ceremony. Nonetheless for Jane the views of the Church conflict with her decision to leave as she struggles with self-judgement and perceiving herself as a bad wife for having left (Hermkens 2008). While a church ceremony is not the only way to solemnize a marriage, people affiliated to the Church, and sometimes those that are not, will espouse the precepts of marriage of the Christian doctrine.…”

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Bridewealth a Pardon: New Relationships and Restoration of Good Daughters

Neuendorf

2020

Oceania

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Bridewealth is recognized as vital in the reproduction and reconfiguration of Pacific environments and women play an integral role in this process. In contemporary Papua New Guinea (PNG), bridewealth is reconfigured by kin to acknowledge the considered actions of women as they enter into relationships with men. This paper will explore how women's choices impact and influence their experience of these exchanges and determine the role of women and their kin as they undertake these practices. Here I aim to understand how the social relatedness that frames bridewealth exchanges enables the practices of bridewealth to be used as a tool for recognition of women's choices, autonomy and personhood. Although women enter into relationships without initial kin approval, bridewealth practices converge ultimately with a women's autonomous choice of husband. Wardlow suggests (2006:86) 'bridewealth confers value and dignity on female gender', and going beyond her observation, I show that bridewealth has been useful in achieving this in regard to managing and supporting social, kin and affinal relationships. This article will explore two cases, to identify what each tells us about women's ability to act in ways that are beneficial to them and important to kin. I show how moral evaluations frame (pasin) and recognize (luksave) kin and social relationships that ultimately constitute their personhood.

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“…It was noticeable that she was respected and listened to without condescension.’ (Dangerfield 1970/71). The long process of Christianisation has had various impacts on gender relations in Gabsongkeg, as in other parts of PNG (Jolly and Macintyre ; Hermkens ; Choi and Jolly ).…”

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Gender and inequality in a postcolonial context of large‐scale capitalist projects in the Markham Valley, Papua New Guinea

Beer

2018

Australian J of Anthropology

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This article historicises gender relations among Wampar speakers in New Guinea (PNG). It analyses three interconnected female biographies to show how historical background interacts with current large-scale capitalist projects to exacerbate social inequalities. One biography exemplifies linkages between Christianisation, education and political representation; the second focuses on inheritance, access to land, and dogmas about patriliny; the third describes a woman's unfavourable position within a sibling set and her access to benefits from land leases. Support by their social network, sibling relations, birth order and, today, marital alliances, are key factors in women's success in the running of businesses, negotiating land disputes, and obtaining representation in political fora set up to deal with social problems. I demonstrate how older differentiations are reproduced as novel inequalities in political representation and in access to land and wealth. These result in new forms of exclusion that differentiate men and women, but which also differentiate life-chances among women.

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Josephine's Journey: Gender‐based Violence and Marian Devotion in Urban Papua New Guinea

Cited by 17 publications

References 16 publications

Assessing women's understandings of health in rural Papua New Guinea: Implications for health policy and practice

Assessing women's understandings of health in rural Papua New Guinea: Implications for health policy and practice

Bridewealth a Pardon: New Relationships and Restoration of Good Daughters

Gender and inequality in a postcolonial context of large‐scale capitalist projects in the Markham Valley, Papua New Guinea

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