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 how we m...
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Kotiswaran, Prabha, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Dangerous Sex, Invisible Labor : Sex Work and the Law in India / Prabha Kotiswaran. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2011] ©2011 1 online resource (312 p.) : 2 line illus. 1 table. 2 maps. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Part One. Theorizing Sex Work -- Part two. The Political Economy of Sex Markets -- Part three. Toward a Theory of Redistribution in Sex Markets -- Notes -- References -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 how we might understand sex workers' demands that they be treated as workers. She contemplates questions of redistribution through law within the sex industry by examining the political economies and legal ethnographies of two archetypical urban sex markets in India. Kotiswaran conducted in-depth fieldwork among sex workers in Sonagachi, Kolkata's largest red-light area, and Tirupati, a temple town in southern India. Providing new insights into the lives of these women--many of whom are demanding the respect and legal protection that other workers get--Kotiswaran builds a persuasive theoretical case for recognizing these women's sexual labor. Moving beyond standard feminist discourse on prostitution, she draws on a critical genealogy of materialist feminism for its sophisticated vocabulary of female reproductive and sexual labor, and uses a legal realist approach to show why criminalization cannot succeed amid the informal social networks and economic structures of sex markets. Based on this, Kotiswaran assesses the law's redistributive potential by analyzing the possible economic consequences of partial decriminalization, complete decriminalization, and legalization. She concludes with a theory of sex work from a postcolonial materialist feminist perspective. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2021) LAW Jurisprudence. PSYCHOLOGY Human Sexuality. Prostitution Economic aspects India. Prostitution Economic aspects. Prostitution India. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package 9783110649772 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 print 9780691142517 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400838769 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400838769 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400838769.jpg |
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