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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wardlow, Holly
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2006.
Subjects:
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
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 volume)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780520938977
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0520245598
9780520245600
0520245601
9786612771903
6612771909
1282771906
9781282771901
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9781598759433

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