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The Politics of Passion, Women's Sexual Culture in the Afro-Surinamese Diaspora
Announcement:
The 2007 Ruth Benedict Award from the Society of Lesbian and Gay
Anthropologists (SOLGA), is awarded to Gloria Wekker's groundbreaking
research:
The Politics of Passion, Women's Sexual Culture in the Afro-Surinamese
Diaspora (Columbia University Press, 2006).

In this illuminating book, Gloria Wekker analyzes the phenomenon of mati
work, an old practice among Afro-Surinamese working-class women in which
marriage is rejected in favor of male and female sexual partners. Wekker
vividly describes the lives of these women, who prefer to create alternative
families of kin, lovers, and children, and gives a fascinating account of
women's sexuality that is not limited to either heterosexuality or same-sex
sexuality. She offers new perspectives on the lives of Caribbean women,
transnational gay and lesbian movements, and an Afro-Surinamese tradition
that challenges conventional Western notions of marriage, gender, identity,
and desire. Bringing these women's voices to the forefront, she offers an
extensive and groundbreaking analysis of the unique historical, religious,
psychological, economic, linguistic, cultural, and political forces that
have shaped their lives.
Gloria Wekker is an anthropologist working on the crossroads of Gender
Studies, Sexuality Studies, Caribbean Studies, Cultural Studies and African
American Studies. She holds the IIAV chair in Gender & Ethnicity in the
Genderstudies Program (Humanities Faculty) of Utrecht University in The
Netherlands.

The Ruth Benedict Prize is presented each year at the American
Anthropological Association's annual meeting to acknowledge excellence in a
scholarly book written from an anthropological perspective about a topic
that engages issues and theoretical perspectives relevant to LGBTQ studies.
The Benedict Prize is awarded in each of two separate categories, one for a
single-authored monograph and another for an edited volume.

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