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Analyzes female agency, gendered violence, and transactional sex in contemporary Papua New Guinea. Focusing on Huli "passenger women," this work explores the socio-economic factors that push women into the practice of transactional sex, and asks how these transactions might be an expressio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wardlow, Holly
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2006.
Temas:
Women, Huli > Sexual behavior > Papua New Guinea > Tari District.
Women, Huli > Papua New Guinea > Tari District > Social conditions.
Women, Huli > Papua New Guinea > Tari District > Economic conditions.
Bride price > Papua New Guinea > Tari District.
Courtship > Papua New Guinea > Tari District.
Prix de la fiancée > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée > Tari (District)
Amours > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée > Tari (District)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Bride price
Courtship
Economic history
Social conditions
Tari District (Papua New Guinea) > Social conditions.
Tari District (Papua New Guinea) > Economic conditions.
Tari (Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée : District) > Conditions sociales.
Tari (Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée : District) > Conditions économiques.
Papua New Guinea > Tari District
anthropologists.
bridewealth.
capitalist economy.
contemporary papua new guinea.
court cases.
ethnography.
female agency.
gender issues.
gender studies.
gendered violence.
huli women.
marriage.
modern world.
new guinea society.
nonfiction.
papua new guinea.
passenger women.
personal experiences.
prostitution.
rape.
sex workers.
sexuality.
social institutions.
socioeconomic factors.
transactional sex.
village law.
women and families.
women.
womens roles.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Analyzes female agency, gendered violence, and transactional sex in contemporary Papua New Guinea. Focusing on Huli "passenger women," this work explores the socio-economic factors that push women into the practice of transactional sex, and asks how these transactions might be an expression of resistance, or even revenge
Descripción Física:1 online resource (1 volume)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780520938977
0520938976
1423755529
9781423755524
9780520245594
0520245598
9780520245600
0520245601
9786612771903
6612771909
1282771906
9781282771901
1598759434
9781598759433

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