Full Description
This book examines sex, sexuality, gender and health in the Pacific with a focus on three key sets of issues: young people, culture and education; sexual and reproductive health and well-being; and belonging, connectedness and justice.
Bringing together the work of scholars from across the Pacific region, this innovative volume showcases traditional knowledge and diverse disciplinary scholarship of policy and practice relevance. In addition to focusing on relationships, health, education, family and community, chapters engage with a number of cross-cutting themes, including violence, justice and rights, and sexuality and gender diversity. Drawing on the diversity and richness of the Pacific, its cultures, languages and people, the book lays the foundations for future conversations and scholarship for, and by, those within the Pacific.
Sex and Gender in the Pacific is an important resource for students, researchers and practitioners working in Pacific studies, sexuality and gender studies, public health, nursing, public policy, sociology, education and anthropology.
Contents
1.Introduction: Pacific values, practices and insights into sexuality, gender and health. Part I Young people, culture and education. 2.Pacific youth-led sex positive responses and gender equity advocacy in Fiji. 3.Weaving policy, theory and practice: Relationships and sexuality education and Pacific young people in Aotearoa New Zealand. 4.Inangaro | Desire: The 'writing in' of māpū | young Cook Islanders' sexual and relationship desires into resources for sexuality and relationships education. 5.A Positive Youth Development approach to addressing sexual and gender diversity with Pasifika young people in Australia. Part II Sexual and reproductive health and well-being. 6.Sexual and reproductive health needs, challenges and opportunities in the Pacific. 7.Grassroots action for improved menstrual health and educational justice with girls in East Kwaio, Solomon Islands. 8.From burdens to blessings: A Pacific perspective on infertility and assisted reproductive technologies in Aotearoa | New Zealand. 9.Socio-structural influences on young men's experiences of sex, pregnancy and pregnancy prevention in Papua New Guinea. 10.Fofola e fala kae talanoa 'a e kainga (roll out the mat so that the family can talk): Unplanned pregnancy and support for young women and girls in Tonga. Part III: Belonging, connectedness and justice. 11.Moana masculinities in the diaspora: Cultural identity and performance on the dance stage and the sports field. 12.Making meaning out of objects: Self, connectedness and belonging among sexuality diverse men and transgender women in Papua New Guinea. 13.Localising human rights for men of diverse sexuality, transgender women and people living with HIV in Papua New Guinea. 14.Family and gender violence in Chuuk, Micronesia. 15.Gender inequality and Pacific-led solutions for a global problem.
