Les femmes kanak sont fatiguées de la violence des hommes
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The engagement of Kanak women with the pro- Independence movement, the economic rebalancing programme launched in the 1990’s to bridge the social gap in New Caledonia between the Kanak and the other communities, and more recently the application of political parity have led to deep change in women’s everyday lives but also in their gender representations. Our ethnographic investigation and the results of our questionnaire survey on violence among the general female population show that, today, a majority of Kanak women no longer legitimise rape or physical violence even if the perpetrator is the partner. In this way they are challenging one of the foundations of the male order and querying long-standing constructions of the conjugal relationship. Violence was until recently a generalised way of imposing male domination. Its ideological challenging, now on a massive scale by the youngest Kanak women and urban Kanak women, shows that new openings are emerging at the individual level and that, more generally, there is a renegotiation of gender social relationships that we will try better understanding here while setting it into the background of the country’s recent political and social history.
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Christine Salomon and Christine Hamelin, “Les femmes kanak sont fatiguées de la violence des hommes”, Journal de la Société des Océanistes, 125 | 2007, 283-294.
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Christine Salomon and Christine Hamelin, “Les femmes kanak sont fatiguées de la violence des hommes”, Journal de la Société des Océanistes [Online], 125 | Année 2007-2, Online since 01 December 2010, connection on 29 March 2024. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/jso/1009; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/jso.1009
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