Introduction -- "Tari is a jelas place" : the fieldwork setting -- "To finish my anger" : body and agency among Huli women -- "I am not the daughter of a pig!" : the changing dynamics of bridewealth -- "You, I don't even count you" : becoming a pasinja meri -- "Eating her own vagina" : passenger women and sexuality -- "When the pig and the bamboo knife are ready" : the Huli dawe anda -- Conclusion
Summary
Analyzes female agency, gendered violence, and transactional sex in contemporary Papua New Guinea. Focusing on Huli "passenger women," this work 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
