Dangerous sex, invisible labor : sex work and the law in India

Dangerous sex, invisible labor : sex work and the law in India / Prabha Kotiswaran.

"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 ho...

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Main Author: Kotiswaran, Prabha
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Prostitution > India.
Prostitution > Economic aspects > India.
PSYCHOLOGY > Human Sexuality.
SELF-HELP > Sexual Instruction.
LAW > Jurisprudence.
Prostitution
Prostitution > Economic aspects
India
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Table of Contents:
  • Dangerous sex, invisible labor : an introduction
  • Revisiting the material : recasting the sex work debates
  • Theorizing the lumpen proletariat : a genealogy of materialist feminism on sex work
  • Not on the lord's agenda : the traveling sex workers of Tirupati
  • Born unto brothels : sex work in a Kolkata red-light area
  • Regulating sex markets : the paradoxical life of the law
  • Toward a postcolonial materialist feminist theory of sex work.

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