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10.4000/jda.3396

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10.4000/jda.3396

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Les femmes kanakes face aux violences sexuelles : le tournant judiciaire des années 1990

Abstract

This paper focuses on a recent social event in New Caledonia: the out‑burst of denunciations and the resorting of Kanak women to French law in order to penalize the sexual and domestic violence of which they are victim. Compared to the former Kanak social acceptance of violence against women and their settlement within customary law, this fact indicates a re-negociation of social relations between the sexes which is analysed in the text and placed in its regional Melanesian context. New female attitudes of protest and of lodging complaint are not only characteristic of the educated and urban élite but, to a certain extent, can also be found among rural women. Through the refusal of male violence, the affirmation of sexual consent and the recognition of the rights of the victims of rape, important changes in the notions of gender and person, and progress of the idea of the individual are being promoted among the Kanaks.

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