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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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
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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