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

by Ceridwen Spark and Spark

Book Overview

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 literature on cities in the "Global South" as sites of oppression, but also resistance, aspiration, and activism. Taking an intersectional feminist approach, the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824889800
• ISBN13: 9780824889807
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"