ANTA02H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Bride Price, Survival Sex, Wage Labour
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Anger, economy, and female agency: problemaizing prosituion and sex. Work among the huli of papua new guinea. Three ields have also shared an evoluion in the terminology naming their object of study: from prosituion to sex work to, most recently, sexual networking and survival sex. Suggests an income-generaing acivity rather than a totalizing idenity. Analysis of huli pasinja meri (literally, passenger women) in papua new guinea- introduction. Huli passenger women exchange sex for money, but passenger women"s iniial moives have litle to do with material necessity and everything to do with anger and resistance. Passenger woman: prosituion that is not insituionalized or naturalized as the oldest profession . Both a sigmaizing slur directed at women who are believed to engage in sexually illicit behavior, whether it involves money or not, and an idenity that some women embrace because it symbolizes rebellion and autonomy.
