Challenging Violence: Kanak Women Renegotiating Gender Relations in New Caledonia This paper is a revised edition of a French article entitledLes 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).