By Gloria Wekker
Gloria Wekker analyzes the phenomenon of mati paintings, an previous perform between Afro-Surinamese working-class girls within which marriage is rejected in prefer of female and male sexual companions. Wekker vividly describes the lives of those girls, preferring to create replacement households of relations, fanatics, and youngsters, and provides a desirable account of women's sexuality that's not constrained to both heterosexuality or same-sex sexuality. She deals new views at the lives of Caribbean girls, transnational homosexual and lesbian routine, and an Afro-Surinamese culture that demanding situations traditional Western notions of marriage, gender, id, and hope. Bringing those women's voices to the leading edge, she bargains an in depth and groundbreaking research of the original historic, non secular, mental, fiscal, linguistic, cultural, and political forces that experience formed their lives.
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She too had married a woman, and she had worn an artificial penis made of lambskin, which she had also used during sexual Â�relations with other women. 2 These brief references to female sodomy raise questions about perceptions of same-sex relations between women in early modern Spain. Were the wives and other female lovers aware of the biological sex of their “husband” or lover? If so, do these cases suggest that when a same-sex couple was investigated, only the woman accused of playing the role of a man would be proseÂ� cuted while her partner (claiming ignorance) would be seen as the victim of a predatory and deceptive lesbian?
Yet to know this or to be ignorant of it must not be thought a thing of no importance or idle curiosity. ╯But how a female can copulate with a female, by rubbing each other together, so that, on one hand, they may be said to commit Sodomy, whilst on the other hand, by rubbing each other in a similar way, they may be considered to perform only pollution: that’s the question! ╯There is no probability in this opinion. ╯If therefore both women are stretched, one, for instance, over the other, it is impossible for the seed of her on the top to be injected into, or enter the vase of the one under her.
Furthermore, the text claims that the woman employing the concoction would need to be tricked into doing so, thus implying that the same-sex relations would not normally be consensual: “The woman is tricked into carrying this dirham weight [of drugs] so that it will lead to the described situation of excitement and passion for six months” (211). The implied but not visible figure in this section is the predatory lesbian who employs chemistry to force her love interest into same-sex relations against her will.