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An ethnography that analyzes female agency, gendered violence, and transactional sex in contemporary Papua New Guinea. Focusing on Huli 'passenger women', (women who accept money for sex), it explores the socio-economic factors that push women into the practice of transactional sex.

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"Rich ... would be analytically useful within all fields seeking intelligibility of complex social relations." Social Anthropology "Provokes new questions while addressing concerns of longstanding in Melanesianist ethnography." Reviews In Anthropology

Wayward Women

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    A Paperback by Holly Wardlow

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 5/8/2006 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780520245600, 978-0520245600
      ISBN10: 0520245601

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      An ethnography that analyzes female agency, gendered violence, and transactional sex in contemporary Papua New Guinea. Focusing on Huli 'passenger women', (women who accept money for sex), it explores the socio-economic factors that push women into the practice of transactional sex.

      Trade Review
      "Rich ... would be analytically useful within all fields seeking intelligibility of complex social relations." Social Anthropology "Provokes new questions while addressing concerns of longstanding in Melanesianist ethnography." Reviews In Anthropology

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