Polini Boseto. Photo courtesy: Christine Weir, Division of Pacific and Asian History, RSPAS, ANU


Table of Contents

Workshop Program

Workshop Participants

Radio Australia write-up of the Workshop, including audio.

Josephine Barnes, Out of the Valley of Tears

Dr Lissant Bolton, Praying for the Revival of Kastom: Women and Christianity in the Vanuatu Cultural Centre

Polini Boseto, Melanesian Women, Mothers of Christian Democracy

Theresia Hopkos, The Ambunti District Women's Council: Problems and Successes

Jacklynne Membup and Martha Macintyre, Petzstorme: A women's organisation in the context of a PNG mining project

Rona Nadile, Prayer as Practical Action

Enikelen Netine, Literacy Program for Women in Vanuatu

Anna Paini, The Kanak Women's Group of Drueulu: Negotiating Christianity and Coutume during the early 1990s

Will Parks, Blessed Maternity and Maternal Blame: The Paradox of motherhood in Marovo, Solomon Islands

Alice Aruheeta Pollard, "Bride Price" and Christianity

Dr Regina Scheyvens, Church Women's Groups and the Empowerment of Women in the Solomon Islands

Jean Tarisesei, Today is not the same as yesterday, and tomorrow it will be different again: kastom on Ambae, Vanuatu

Tamara Wete, Christian Marriage in Kanak Society with Special Reference to 'Iai' island