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

Informationen zum Autor Svati P. Shah is Assistant Professor in the Department of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Klappentext 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 in brothels. Svati P. Shah argues that sex work should be seen in relation to other structural inequities affecting these women’s lives, such as threats from the police and lack of access to clean water.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Svati P Shah, Svati P. Shah, Svati P./ Wiegman Shah, Svati Pragna Shah
• Con la collaborazione di: Robyn Wiegman (Editore)
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 29.07.2014
• EAN: 9780822356899
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5689-9
• Pagine: 277
• Serie: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies; Next Wave: New Directions in W; Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni