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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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"...A wholly worthwhile book." -- Jaqueline Nassy Brown "[A] profound ethnography." -- New West Indian Guide

Table of Contents
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

The Politics of Passion

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    A Paperback / softback by Gloria Wekker

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      Publisher: Columbia University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 25/04/2006
      ISBN13: 9780231131636, 978-0231131636
      ISBN10: 0231131631
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      Gender studies: women and girls Sex and sexuality, social aspects

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      "...A wholly worthwhile book." -- Jaqueline Nassy Brown "[A] profound ethnography." -- New West Indian Guide

      Table of Contents
      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

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