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

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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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Main Author: Shah, Svati P.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women > Employment.
Rural-urban migration.
Prostitution.
Prostitutes.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
Exode rural > Inde > Mumbai.
Prostituees > Inde > Mumbai.
Women > Employment > India > Mumbai.
Rural-urban migration > India > Mumbai.
Prostitution > India > Mumbai.
Prostitutes > India > Mumbai.
India > Mumbai.
Electronic books.
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Street Corner Secrets : Sex, Work, and Migration in the City of Mumbai.
by Shah, Svati P.
Published 2014
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