Since the time of decolonisation in Fiji, women’s organisations have  navigated a complex political terrain. While they have stayed true to  the aim of advancing women’s status, their work has been buffeted by  national political upheavals and changing global and regional directions  in development policy-making.
This book documents how women activists  have understood and responded to these challenges.&nbsp; It is the first book  to write women into Fiji’s postcolonial history, providing a detailed  historical account of that country’s gender politics across four  tumultuous decades.&nbsp; It is also the first to examine the ‘situated’  nature of gender advocacy in the Pacific Islands more broadly. It does  this by analysing trends in activity, from women’s radical and  provocative activism of the 1960s to a more self-evaluative and  reflexive mood of engagement in later decades, showing how interplaying  global and local factors can shape women’s understandings of gender  justice and their pursuit of that goal