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9780520245594

Wayward Women

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  • ISBN13:

    9780520245594

  • ISBN10:

    0520245598

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2006-03-31
  • Publisher: Univ of California Pr
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Summary

A lucid and engaging ethnography of Huli women in Papua New Guinea who practice prostitution, or transactional sex. Warldow examines the ways in which these women use sex as female agency, not simply for financial gain but also for revenge, power, and resistance.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1(29)
``Tari is a jelas place'': The Fieldwork Setting
30(33)
``To finish my anger'': Body and Agency among Huli Women
63(36)
``I am not the daughter of a pig!'': The Changing Dynamics of Bridewealth
99(35)
``You, I don't even count you'': Becoming a Pasinja Meri
134(32)
``Eating her own vagina'': Passenger Women and Sexuality
166(25)
``When the pig and the bamboo knife are ready'': The Huli Dawe Anda
191(30)
Conclusion 221(18)
Notes 239(16)
References 255(18)
Index 273

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