Women, Development and Empowerment: A Pacific Feminist Perspective
CONTENTS
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements | |
Editor's Note | |
INTRODUCTION TO PACIFIC WORKSHOP: | |
Women, Development & Empowerment | i |
DAY 1 | |
DEVELOPING A FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE | 1 |
OPENING SESSION ON FEMINISM | 1 |
Negative and Positive Attitudes to Feminism | 19 |
Cultural and Traditional Practices and Women's Status in the Pacific | 22 |
WOMEN'S PROJECTS AND PROGRAMMES: CASE STUDIES | 29 |
Primary Health and the National Women's Federation in Kiribati
Kairabu Betaia |
30 |
A YWCA Kindergarten in the Solomon Islands
Jully Makini |
34 |
A Women's Crisis Centre in Suva, Fiji
Shamima Ali |
37 |
Establishing a National Machinery for Women's Development in Papua New Guinea Fungke Samana |
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Women's Organisations in Guam
Laura Souder-Jaffery |
51 |
Women's Participation in a Subsistence Agriculture Improvement Programme, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea Fungke Samana |
61 |
DAY 2 | |
WOMEN AND DEVELOPMENT: A CRITICAL EXAMINATION | 67 |
Introduction Claire Slatter |
67 |
Pacific Development Strategies Hilda Lini |
68 |
PROJECTS AS STRATEGIES FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF WOMEN | 77 |
Critical Appraisal of the Idea of Using Projects as Strategies for the Advancement of Women Noeleen Heyzer |
77 |
Summary of Workshop Discussion on Projects | 84 |
Projects - Tokelau Islands, Kiribati, Cook Islands
Mesapa [sic: Mesepa]Atoni, Kairabu Betaia, Vereara Maeva |
85 |
Alternative Approaches to Development in Kanaky Dewe Gorodey Pourouin |
89 |
Women, Development and Feminism: Some Criteria Amelia Rokotuivuna |
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DAY 3 | |
DEFINING PACIFIC FEMINISM | 97 |
Introduction Laura Souder-Jaffery |
97 |
Defining Pacific Feminism – Workshop Discussion | 102 |
Our Vision – Workshop Statement | 111 |
DAY 4 | |
WOMEN, DEVELOPMENT AND EMPOWERMENT: STRATEGIES | 117 |
Advancing Pacific Feminism to Empower Women Vanessa Griffen |
117 |
Strategies – Advancing Pacific Feminism | 130 |
APPENDIX 1 Evaluation | 133 |
APPENDIX 2 Participants and addresses | 138 |