The politics of passion : women's sexual culture in the Afro-Surinamese diaspora /
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 ch...
| Основен автор: | Wekker, Gloria. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York :
Columbia University Press,
℗♭2006.
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| Серия: |
Between men--between women.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=168494 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Politics of passion. |
Съдържание:
- 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.