Women, Development and Empowerment: A Pacific Feminist Perspective

Contents

• • [covers]
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • EDITOR'S NOTE
  • INTRODUCTION TO PACIFIC WORKSHOP: — WOMEN, DEVELOPMENT AND EMPOWERMENT — WELCOME BY WORKSHOP CO-ORDINATOR
• • DAY 1 — DEVELOPING A FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE
    • FIRST SESSION: “WHAT IS FEMINISM?”
    • OPENING SESSION ON FEMINISM
    • FEMINISM
    • SUMMARY OF FIRST DISCUSSION OF FEMINISM
    • SUMMARY OF NEGATIVE AND POSITIVE ATTITUDES TO FEMINISM
      • Negative attitudes to feminism
      • Other Negative Points Raised
      • Positive Attitudes to Feminism
      • Positive Attitudes to Feminism
    • CULTURAL AND TRADITIONAL PRACTICES, AND WOMEN'S STATUS IN THE PACIFIC
      • [subsection]
      • Two issues were identified for discussion:
    • A MAN'S WORLD
  • DAY 1 — WOMEN'S PROJECTS AND PROGRAMMES IN THE — PACIFIC: CASE STUDIES
    • INTRODUCTION
    • RATIONALE FOR WORKSHOP SESSION ON PROJECTS AND PROGRAMMES
    • PRIMARY HEALTH AND THE NATIONAL WOMEN'S FEDERATION IN KIRIBATI — Primary Health Care in Kiribati
    • A YWCA KINDERGARTEN IN THE SOLOMON ISLANDS
    • THE WOMEN'S CRISIS CENTRE IN SUVA, FIJI
      • [subsection]
      • Contribution to the Community
      • The Centre and “Development”
      • Discussion
    • ESTABLISHING A NATIONAL MACHINERY FOR WOMEN'S DEVELOPMENT IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA
      • [subsection]
      • The Government Machinery
      • Workshop Discussion
    • WOMEN'S ORGANISATIONS IN GUAM
      • [subsection]
      • The Federation of Chamorro Women's Organisations
      • Key Leadership Positions in the Federation
    • WOMEN'S PARTICIPATION IN A SUBSISTENCE AGRICULTURE IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMME, MOROBE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
      • [subsection]
      • Morobe Province
      • Beginnings of the Provincial Women's Organisation
      • The Subsistence Agriculture Programme
  • DAY 2 — WOMEN AND DEVELOPMENT: A CRITICAL EXAMINATION
    • [section]
    • INTRODUCTION
    • PACIFIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES
      • [subsection]
      • Women and Development Planning
      • Summary of Workshop Discussion — What is Development?
      • Summary of Development Discussion
  • DAY 2 — PROJECTS AS STRATEGIES FOR — THE ADVANCEMENT OF WOMEN
    • CRITICAL APPRAISAL OF THE IDEA OF USING PROJECTS AS — STRATEGIES FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF WOMEN
      • [subsection]
      • Critical Appraisal of Projects
      • Evaluation of Projects
      • Analysis of the Positive Role of Projects
      • Income Generating Projects
      • Pilot Projects
      • Development Projects
      • Family Development
      • Village Credit
      • Summary of Workshop Discussion on Projects: Experiences
      • Project Problems
    • ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO DEVELOPMENT IN KANAKY
    • WOMEN, DEVELOPMENT AND FEMINISM: SOME CRITERIA
  • DAY 3 — DEFINING PACIFIC FEMINISM
    • [section]
    • INTRODUCTION
    • DEFINING PACIFIC FEMINISM
      • [subsection]
      • The Family
      • Questions of Class or Privilege
      • Violence in the Family
      • Education
      • Religion
      • What is Traditional?
      • The Economy
      • The Environment
      • On Women's Traditional Power
    • OUR VISION
      • [subsection]
      • The Family
      • Education
      • Religion
      • Economy
      • Environment
      • Politics
  • DAY 4 — WOMEN, DEVELOPMENT AND EMPOWERMENT: STRATEGIES
    • ADVANCING PACIFIC FEMINISM TO EMPOWER WOMEN
      • [subsection]
      • Having A Say in Projects
      • Practical Ways of Empowerment
      • Learning to Say “No”
      • Examining Our Own Structures
      • Use of Resources - Time and Money
      • To Empower Women in Society
      • Women and Other Struggles for Social Change
      • Empowerment Means Having an Alternative Vision of Society
      • Feminist Perspective
    • STRATEGIES
      • [subsection]
      • Advancing Pacific Feminism
      • Family
      • Violence Against Women
      • Education
      • Economic Self-reliance
      • Working and Organising for Women
      • Status of Women
      • Women and Politics
• • APPENDIX 1 — EVALUATION
  • APPENDIX 2 — LIST OF PARTICIPANTS AND ADDRESSES

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Title: Women, Development and Empowerment

Author: Vanessa Griffen

Publication details: Asian and Pacific Development Centre, Kuala Lumpur

Part of: Tidal Pools: Digitized Texts from Oceania for Samoan and Pacific Studies

Keywords: Contemporary Māori and Pacific Islands

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