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

"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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kotiswaran, Prabha
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.