Format:
Online-Ressource (xi, 284 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0520245601
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0520245598
Content:
Written with uncommon grace and clarity, this extremely engaging ethnography analyzes female agency, gendered violence, and transactional sex in contemporary Papua New Guinea. Focusing on Huli "passenger women," (women who accept money for sex) Wayward Women 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. Challenging conventional understandings of "prostitution" and "sex work," Holly Wardlow contextualizes the actions and intentions of passenger women in a rich ana
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. ""Tari is a jelas place"": The Fieldwork Setting; 2. ""To Finish my anger"": Body and Agency among Huli Women; 3. ""I am not the daughter of a pig!"": The Changing Dynamics of Bridewealth; 4. ""You, I don't even count you"": Becoming a Pasinja Meri; 5. ""Eating her own vagina"": Passenger Women and Sexuality; 6. ""When the pig and the bamboo knife are ready"": The Huli Dave Anda; Conclusion; Notes; Reference; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520245600
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Wayward Women : Sexuality and Agency in a New Guinea Society
Language:
English
