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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kotiswaran, Prabha
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2011.
Subjects:	Prostitution > India. Prostitution > Economic aspects > India. Social Science. Law. PSYCHOLOGY > Human Sexuality. SELF-HELP > Sexual Instruction. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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.