ISBN:
0691142513
,
0691142505
,
9780691142517
,
9780691142500
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xi, 298 p)
,
ill., map
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Dangerous Sex, Invisible Labor : Sex Work and the Law in India
DDC:
306.740954
Keywords:
Prostitution Economic aspects
;
Prostitution
;
Prostitution -- India
;
Prostitution -- Economic aspects -- India
;
Prostitution ; Economic aspects ; India
;
Prostitution ; India
;
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Abstract:
Popular representations of third-world sex workers as sex slaves and vectors of HIV have spawned abolitionist legal reforms that are harmful and ineffective, and public health initiatives that provide only marginal protection of sex workers' rights. In this book, Prabha Kotiswaran asks how we might understand sex workers' demands that they be treated as workers. She contemplates questions of redistribution through law within the sex industry by examining the political economies and legal ethnographies of two archetypical urban sex markets in India. Kotiswaran conducted in-depth fieldwork amo
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Part One: Theorizing Sex Work; One: Dangerous Sex, Invisible Labor: An Introduction; Two: Revisiting the Material: Recasting the Sex Work Debates; Three: Theorizing the Lumpen Proletariat: A Genealogy of Materialist Feminism on Sex Work; Part Two: The Political Economy of Sex Markets; Four: Not on the Lord's Agenda: The Traveling Sex Workers of Tirupati; Five: Born unto Brothels: Sex Work in a Kolkata Red-Light Area; Part Three: Toward a Theory of Redistribution in Sex Markets
Description / Table of Contents:
Six: Regulating Sex Markets: The Paradoxical Life of the LawSeven: Toward a Postcolonial Materialist Feminist Theory of Sex Work; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-283) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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