Gloria Wekker (Professor and Univeristy of Utrecht Director)

The Politics of Passion

Women's Sexual Culture in the Afro-Surinamese Diaspora

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Centers on an old institution among the Afro-Surinamese working class in which women have multiple sexual relationships with both men and women. These women reject marriage, preferring to create their own families of kin, lovers, and children. Analyzing this phenomenon, known as mati work, this book describes the lives of Afro-Surinamese women.

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Produktdetails

• Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 149mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 482g
• ISBN-13: 9780231131636
• ISBN-10: 0231131631
• Artikelnr.: 21667335

Autorenporträt

Gloria Wekker

Inhaltsangabe

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