Buch
Monografie
Wayward women : sexuality and agency in a New Guinea society
Verfasst von:
Wardlow, Holly
Berkeley, Calif. [u. a.]:
Univ. of California Press
,
2006
,
284 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Frauensolidarität | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Wardlow, Holly |
| Jahr: | 2006 |
| Maße: | 23cm |
| ISBN: | 0520245598 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| This 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 an analysis of kinship, bridewealth, marriage, and exchange, revealing the ways in which these social institutions are transformed by an encompassing capitalist economy. Many passenger women assert that they have been treated 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 in their own stories about becoming "wayward." Drawing on village court cases, hospital records, and women's own narratives, the book provides a portrait of the way modernity engages with gender to produce new and contested subjectivities. | |
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