The politics of passion: women's sexual culture in the Afro-Surinamese diaspora
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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 con.
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Data sheet
- Name of the Author
- Gloria
Wekker - Language
- English
- Series
- Between men--between women
- ISBN
- 9786613627858
- Release date
- 2006
