Wayward Women: Sexuality and Agency in a New Guinea Society

by Holly Wardlow

Book Overview

Written with uncommon grace and clarity, this extremely engaging ethnography analyzes female agency, gendered violence, and transactional sex in contemporary Papua New Guinea. Focusing on Huli "passenger women," (women who accept money for sex) Wayward Women 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. Challenging conventional...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520245601
• ISBN13: 9780520245600
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"