{"product_id":"wayward-women-by-holly-wardlow-9780520245600","title":"Wayward Women","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten with uncommon grace and clarity, this extremely engaging ethnography analyses female agency, gendered violence, and transactional sex in contemporary Papua New Guinea. Focusing on Huli \"passenger women\" (women who accept money for sex), \u003cem\u003eWayward Women\u003c\/em\u003e explores the socio-economic factors that push women into the practice of transactional sex, and asks how these transactions might be an expression of resistance, or even revenge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eChallenging conventional understandings of \"prostitution\" and \"sex work,\" Holly Wardlow contextualises the actions and intentions of passenger women in a rich analysis of kinship, bridewealth, marriage, and exchange. She reveals the ways in which these robust social institutions are transformed by an encompassing capitalist economy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMany passenger women assert that they have been treated \u003cem\u003eolsem maket\u003c\/em\u003e (like market goods) by their husbands and natal kin, and they respond by fleeing home and defiantly appropriating their sexuality for their own purposes. Experiences of rape, violence, and the failure of kin to redress such wrongs figure prominently in their own stories about becoming \"wayward.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on village court cases, hospital records, and women's own raw, caustic, and darkly funny narratives, \u003cem\u003eWayward Women\u003c\/em\u003e provides a riveting portrait of the way modernity engages with gender to produce new and contested subjectivities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471903768812,"sku":"9780520245600","price":66.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/4af311c1c6cc3801ca2e23ef0c821b7d.jpg?v=1775692800","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/wayward-women-by-holly-wardlow-9780520245600","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}