Anger, economy, and female agency: Problematizing "prostitution" and "sex work" among the Huli of Papua New Guinea

Signs

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1017-1040

  Wardlow, Holly ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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EID: 34247652904     PISSN: 00979740     EISSN: 15456943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/382628     Document Type: Review

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