Margaret Anne Jolly (born 12 April 1949), born in Sydney, Australia
Career
From 2010 to 2015, Jolly held an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship, an award valued at $2.7M.
She has written extensively on gender in the Pacific,
on exploratory voyages and travel writing, missions and contemporary Christianity, maternity and sexuality, cinema and art.
Jolly has held a number of prestigious academic roles including Head of the Gender Relations Centre 1992-2009; Burns Distinguished Visiting Chair, History, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (1998); Visiting Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz (2002); Visiting Professor, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France (2009).
Honours
Jolly was made a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2020
Australia Day Honours for "significant service to education, particularly to gender and Pacific studies."
Selected works
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Family and gender in the Pacific: Domestic contradictions and the colonial impact co-edited with Martha Macintyre
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Women of the Place, Kastom, Colonialism and Gender in Vanuatu (1994)
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Sites of Desire, Economies of Pleasure: Sexualities in Asia and the Pacific, co-edited with Lenore Manderson (1997)
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Maternities and Modernities: Colonial and Postcolonial Experiences in Asia and the Pacific, co-edited with Kalpana Ram (1998)
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Borders of Being: Citizenship, Fertility and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, co-edited with Kalpana Ram (2001)
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Birthing in the Pacific: Beyond Tradition and Modernity?, co-edited with Vicki Lukere (2001)
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Oceanic Encounters: Exchange, Desire, Violence, co-edited with Serge Tcherkézoff and Darrell Tryon (2009)
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Engendering Violence in Papua New Guinea co-edited with Christine Stewart and Carolyn Brewer (2012)
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Gender Violence and Human Rights: Seeking Justice in Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu co-edited with Aletta Biersack and Martha Macintyre
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