ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book focuses on the ways in which women in Fiji, Samoa, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu engage with their variously contentious sporting practices. It examines women’s ‘controversial’ sporting practices, which are most immediately impacted by kinship relations. Women’s familial/community relations vis-a-vis their sporting pursuits are intersected by class, geography, ethnicity and various other social locations. The book focuses on national-level patriarchal configurations and urban women’s experiences masks multiplicity and variability within communities and nations. While the women’s strategies vary widely, from silent-but-all-out resistance to a Pacific-style stealth feminism, a Southern-Northern collective and mobilisation of the power of culture, they each hold out transformative meanings, outcomes and potentials. Pacific women are positioned in particular configurations of postcolonial (hetero)patriarchy and particular locations of kinship, class, ethnicity, geography and other axes of power.
