Wayward women : sexuality and agency in a New Guinea society /

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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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Wardlow, Holly
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2006.
Sujets:
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.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction
  • "Tari is a jelas place" : the fieldwork setting
  • "To finish my anger" : body and agency among Huli women
  • "I am not the daughter of a pig!" : the changing dynamics of bridewealth
  • "You, I don't even count you" : becoming a pasinja meri
  • "Eating her own vagina" : passenger women and sexuality
  • "When the pig and the bamboo knife are ready" : the Huli dawe anda
  • Conclusion.

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