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Women, Age, and Power: The Politics of Age Difference among Women in Papua New Guinea 
and Australia


Special Issue of Pacific Studies 19(4) 1996

Edited by 
Jeanette Dickerson-Putnam

Introduction
Dorothy Counts and Jeanette Dickerson-Putnam
 
The Woman Who Ran Away: Gender, Power, and Place among the Atbalmin of the West Sepik, Papua New Guinea
Eytan Bercovitch
 
From Pollution to Empowerment: Women, Age, and Power among the Bena Bena of the Eastern Highlands
Jeanette Dickerson-Putnam
 
The Women at Kobum Spice Company: Tensions in a Local Age Stratification System and the Undermining of Local Development
Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi
 
Making the Papua New Guinean Woman: The Extension of Women's Initiation Practices to Secondary Education in Central New Ireland
Karen Sykes
 
Taramaguti Today: Changing Roles of Senior Tiwi Wives as Household Managers
Jane C. Goodale