ISBN:
9780231131636
,
9780231131629
,
0231131623
,
0231131631
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xvi, 313 p)
,
ill
,
23 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Between men--between women
Parallel Title:
Print version The Politics of Passion : Women's Sexual Culture in the Afro-Surinamese Diaspora
DDC:
306.76/5089960883
Keywords:
Women Identity
;
Sex customs
;
Lesbianism
;
Creoles
;
Women Sexual behavior
Abstract:
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 conventional Weste
Description / Table of Contents:
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 onTop of Me: Relationships Between Women and Men; 5: The Mati Work; 6: Sexuality on the Move; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-295) and index
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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
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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