TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sahni, Rohini 
AU  - Shankar, V Kalyan 
AU  - Apte,  Hemant 
TI  - Prostitution and beyond: An analysis of sex workers in India
SN  - 9789352801572
PY  - 2008///
PB  - SAGE
KW  - Social Science
N1  - Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Immorality, hurt or choice; Women's movements in India; Elusive choice and agency; Different issues/different voices; Ritualized prostitution; Ethnographic study of community-based sex work among Nats; Male sex work (MSW); Ethnographic profi le of female sex workers of Dharwad, Karnataka; The invisibles; Markets, histories and grass-root evidences; Surfacing voices from the underground; The legal framework of prostitution in India; Legal interpretations of prostitution; (Mis)reading through the lines; Ground realities of the legal framework Contesting legal positions on prostitution from a human rights perspectiveFemale sex workers and the HIV/AIDS epidemic in India; In the interest of business and health; There is more to health than AIDS; The veshya ̄, the ganika and the tawaif; What does a language have to say?; Modern theatre as epitome of middle class civilized culture; Producing the spectacle of Kamathipura; About the Editors and Contributors; Index
UR  - https://evidya.sagepub.in/library/prostitution-and-beyond?bookId=3158&siteName=evidya
ER  -