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Wayward Women: Sexuality And Agency In A New Guinea Society
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- Condition
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Perfect
- Title
- Wayward Women: Sexuality And Agency In A New Guinea Society
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- Guinea
- Topic
- Anthropology, Women
- Subject Area
- Family & Relationships, Business & Economics, Social Science
- Publication Name
- Wayward Women : Sexuality and Agency in a New Guinea Society
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Subject
- Love & Romance, Gender Studies, Economic Conditions, Women's Studies, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Customs & Traditions
- Publication Year
- 2006
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Item Weight
- 14.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 296 Pages
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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 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 analysis of kinship, bridewealth, marriage, and exchange, revealing the ways in which these robust social institutions are transformed by an encompassing capitalist economy. Many passenger women assert that they have been treated ""olsem maket" "(like market goods) by their husbands and natal kin, and they respond by fleeing home and defiantly appropriating their sexuality for their own purposes. Experiences of rape, violence, and the failure of kin to redress such wrongs figure prominently in their own stories about becoming "wayward." Drawing on village court cases, hospital records, and women's own raw, caustic, and darkly funny narratives, "Wayward Women" provides a riveting portrait of the way modernity engages with gender to produce new and contested subjectivities.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520245601
ISBN-13
9780520245600
eBay Product ID (ePID)
48683859
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Wayward Women : Sexuality and Agency in a New Guinea Society
Format
Perfect
Language
English
Subject
Love & Romance, Gender Studies, Economic Conditions, Women's Studies, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Customs & Traditions
Publication Year
2006
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Family & Relationships, Business & Economics, Social Science
Number of Pages
296 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9 in
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
14.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2005-028155
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Lc Classification Number
2005028155
Reviews
Rich . . . . would be analytically useful within all fields seeking intelligibility of complex social relations., "Provokes new questions while addressing concerns of longstanding in Melanesianist ethnography."-- Reviews In Anthropology, "Rich . . . . would be analytically useful within all fields seeking intelligibility of complex social relations."-- Social Anthropology
Copyright Date
2006
Dewey Decimal
305.409956/1
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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