Wayward Women Sexuality and Agency in a New Guinea Society

Name: Wayward Women Sexuality and Agency in a New Guinea Society
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ISBN: 9780520245600

ISBN-10: 0520245601

ISBN-13: 9780520245600

Edition: 2006

Authors: Holly Wardlow

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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 Womenexplores 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 analysis of kinship, bridewealth, marriage, and exchange, revealing the ways in which these robust…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 5/8/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


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


Notes


References


Index