The New Port Moresby : : Gender, Space, and Belonging in Urban Papua New Guinea /

The New Port Moresby : : Gender, Space, and Belonging in Urban Papua New Guinea / / Ceridwen Spark; ed. by Jack Corbett, Brij V. Lal.

The New Port Moresby: Gender, Space, and Belonging in Urban Papua New Guinea explores the ways in which educated, professional women experience living in Port Moresby, the burgeoning capital of Papua New Guinea. Drawing on postcolonial and feminist scholarship, the book adds to an emerging literatur...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2020 Part 2
VerfasserIn:
Spark, Ceridwen,
HerausgeberIn:
Corbett, Jack,
Lal, Brij V.,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Topics in the Contemporary Pacific
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Physical Description:1 online resource (200 p.) :; 8 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • From the General Editors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue
  • Introduction: Women in the City
  • 1. Representations of Port Moresby: Gender, Class, and Culture in Films about the City
  • 2. At Home in the City: Educated Women, Housing, and Belonging in Port Moresby
  • 3. Getting Comfortable in the "New" Port Moresby
  • 4. From Mosbi to "POM City": Gender, Transnationalism, and Development in Port Moresby
  • 5. "The Heat of the PNG Sun": Women in Development
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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