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Street Corner Secrets : Sex, Work, and Migration in the City of Mumbai.

An ethnography of women in the city of Mumbai who look for work at nakas, street corners where day laborers congregate and wait to be hired for construction jobs. Often chosen last, after male workers, or not at all, some women turn to sex work in order to make money, at the nakas, on the street, or...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Shah, Svati P.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
Series:Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. Day Wage Labor and Migration: Making Ends Meet; Chapter 2. Sex, Work, and Silence from the Construction Workers' Naka; Chapter 3. Sex Work and the Street; Chapter 4. Red-Light Districts, Rescue, and Real Estate; Conclusion. Agency, Livelihoods, and Spaces; Notes; Bibliography; Index.