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Paper:
2010/05 - Gender,
Culture & The Pacific
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Unit: Human Development Author: Yvonne Underhill-Sem This paper provides a deeper understanding of how culture in
the Pacific impacts gender equality and human development. The analysis
addresses two views that are widely held in the Pacific: 1) that gender is
biologically determined, and 2) that culture is a sacred template should not
be meddled with. Both these notions have attracted sound scholarly
consideration in the Pacific, which has shown that rather than either being
fixed, gender is socially constructed and culture is constituted by
contemporary milieu as much as it is by its traditional and historical
genealogy. |