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

(Part of the Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies Series)

by Svati P. Shah

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Street Corner Secrets challenges widespread notions of sex work in India by examining solicitation in three spaces within the city of Mumbai that are seldom placed within the same analytic frame--brothels, streets, and public day-wage labor markets (nakas), where sexual commerce may be solicited discretely alongside other income-generating activities. Focusing on women who migrated to Mumbai from rural, economically underdeveloped areas...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0822356988

ISBN13:9780822356981

Release Date:July 2014

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:280 Pages

Weight:0.90 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"

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(Part of the Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies Series)

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