| Description |
1 online resource (1 volume) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Women, Huli -- Sexual behavior -- Papua New Guinea -- Tari District.
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Women, Huli. |
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Papua New Guinea. |
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Papua New Guinea -- Tari District. |
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Women, Huli -- Papua New Guinea -- Tari District -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
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Women, Huli -- Papua New Guinea -- Tari District -- Economic conditions.
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Economic conditions. |
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Bride price -- Papua New Guinea -- Tari District.
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Bride price. |
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Courtship -- Papua New Guinea -- Tari District.
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Courtship. |
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Tari District (Papua New Guinea) -- Social conditions.
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Tari District (Papua New Guinea) -- Economic conditions.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wardlow, Holly. Wayward women. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2006 0520245598 0520245601 (DLC) 2005028155 (OCoLC)61821649 |
| ISBN |
9780520938977 (electronic book) |
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0520938976 (electronic book) |
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1423755529 (electronic book) |
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9781423755524 (electronic book) |
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9780520245594 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0520245598 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780520245600 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0520245601 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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