Women's Sexual Culture in the Afro-Surinamese Diaspora
by
Gloria Wekker
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2006
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...