| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 313 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Between men--between women
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Between men--between women.
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| Note |
Revision of the author's thesis published in 1994 under title: Ik ben een gouden munt, ik ga door vele handen, maar ik verlies mijn waarde niet. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-295) and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Series Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1. No Tide, No Tamara / Not Today, Not Tomorrow: Misi Juliette Cummings's Life History; 2. Suriname, Sweet Suriname: A Political Economy of Gendered and Racialized Inequality; 3. Winti, an Afro-Surinamese Religion and the Multiplicitous Self; 4. Kon Sidon na Mi Tapu ... / Then He Comes and Sits Down on Top of Me ... Relationships Between Women and Men; 5. The Mati Work; 6. Sexuality on the Move; Notes; Works Cited; Index; Series Title. |
| Summary |
Gloria Wekker analyzes the phenomenon of mati work, an old practice among Afro-Surinamese working-class women in which marriage is rejected in favor of male and female sexual partners. Wekker vividly describes the lives of these women, who prefer to create alternative families of kin, lovers, and children, and gives a fascinating account of women's sexuality that is not limited to either heterosexuality or same-sex sexuality. She offers new perspectives on the lives of Caribbean women, transnational gay and lesbian movements, and an Afro-Surinamese tradition that challenges con. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Women -- Sexual behavior -- Suriname -- Paramaribo.
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Women -- Sexual behavior. |
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Suriname -- Paramaribo. |
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Women -- Suriname -- Paramaribo -- Identity.
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Women. |
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Identity (Philosophical concept) |
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Sex customs -- Suriname -- Paramaribo.
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Sex customs. |
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Lesbianism -- Suriname -- Paramaribo.
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Lesbianism. |
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Creoles -- Suriname -- Paramaribo.
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Creoles. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
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Sexual practices. |
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Lesbianism. |
| Added Author |
Wekker, Gloria.
Ik ben een gouden munt, ik ga door vele handen, maar ik verlies mijn waarde niet.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wekker, Gloria. Politics of passion. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2006 (DLC) 2005054320 |
| ISBN |
0231506015 (electronic book) |
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9780231506014 (electronic book) |
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0231131623 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0231131631 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780231131629 |
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9780231131636 |
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