Format:
1 Online-Ressource (1 volume)
ISBN:
9780520938977
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0520938976
,
1423755529
,
9781423755524
,
9780520245594
,
0520245598
,
9780520245600
,
0520245601
,
9786612771903
,
6612771909
,
1282771906
,
9781282771901
,
1598759434
,
9781598759433
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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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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Includes text in Huli
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Wardlow, Holly Wayward women Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2006 ISBN 0520245598
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0520245601
Language:
Undetermined
