The Politics of Passion: Women's Sexual Culture in the Afro-Surinamese Diaspora by Gloria Wekker

The Politics of Passion: Women's Sexual Culture in the Afro-Surinamese Diaspora

Gloria Wekker

336 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction feminism challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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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 ...

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