Challenging Violence: Kanak Women Renegotiating Gender Relations in New Caledonia This paper is a revised edition of a French article entitled Les femmes kanakes sont fatiguées de la violence des hommes [ Kanak women have had enough of men's violence ], Journal de la Société des Océanistes , 2007, vol. 125, no. 2, pp. 101–112. The paper was also presented at the ‘Engendering Violence’ session of the 2007 annual Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania meeting (Charlotteville, 22 February).