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...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2006]
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Series: | Between men--between women.
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Online Access: | CONNECT |