[PDF.88rx] The Politics of Passion: Women's Sexual Culture in the Afro-Surinamese Diaspora (Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies)

The Politics of Passion: Women's Sexual Culture in the Afro-Surinamese Diaspora (Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies)

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 | #1054363 in Books |  Gloria Wekker |  2006-04-25 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.96 x.72 x6.10l,.98 | File type: PDF | 336 pages

 | The Politics of Passion Women s Sexual Culture in the Afro Surinamese Diaspora Between Men Between Women Lesbian and Gay Studies

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Mati work at its best! To me an eye opener to female sexuality ...|By Margo van der Voort|Indepth study of politics of passion in the Caribean islands and Suriname. Provocatively fascinating. The construct of marriage in Indoamerican/Northerneuropean domination history/economy. Non marriage and independence/close female friendships/relationships as resistance against white/reli| |.,."A wholly worthwhile book." -- Jaqueline Nassy Brown

, .."A wholly worthwhile book." -- Jaqueline Nassy Brown

|., ."A wholly worthwhile book." -- Jaqueline Nassy Brown

"[A] profound ethnography." -- "New West Indian Guide"

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 liv...

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