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Street corner secrets sex, work, and migration in the city of Mumbai Svati P. Shah.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shah, Svati Pragna, 1970-
- Series:
- Next wave.
- Next wave : new directions in women's studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prostitutes--India--Mumbai.
- Prostitutes.
- Prostitution--India--Mumbai.
- Prostitution.
- Rural-urban migration--India--Mumbai.
- Rural-urban migration.
- Women--Employment--India--Mumbai.
- Women.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (277 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Day wage labor and migration : making ends meet
- Sex, work, and silence from the construction workers' naka
- Sex work and the street
- Red-light districts, rescue, and real estate
- Conclusion: agency, livelihoods, and spaces.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822356981
- 0822356988
- 9780822376514
- 0822376512
- OCLC:
- 1145206531
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