Wayward women sexuality and agency in a New Guinea society

Summary: 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.

Record details

ISBN: 0520245601
ISBN: 9780520245600
ISBN: 0520245598
ISBN: 9780520245594
ISBN: 9781423755524
ISBN: 1423755529
ISBN: 0520938976
ISBN: 9780520938977
Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 volume)
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electronic resource
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2006.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.