By Gloria Wekker
Gloria Wekker analyzes the phenomenon of mati paintings, an outdated perform between Afro-Surinamese working-class girls within which marriage is rejected in desire of female and male sexual companions. Wekker vividly describes the lives of those girls, preferring to create substitute households of kinfolk, enthusiasts, and youngsters, and provides a desirable account of women's sexuality that's not restricted to both heterosexuality or same-sex sexuality. She deals new views at the lives of Caribbean girls, transnational homosexual and lesbian activities, and an Afro-Surinamese culture that demanding situations traditional Western notions of marriage, gender, identification, and hope. Bringing those women's voices to the leading edge, she bargains an intensive and groundbreaking research of the original ancient, spiritual, mental, monetary, linguistic, cultural, and political forces that experience formed their lives.
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