Simanti Dasgupta

Prophylactic Rights

Sex Work, HIV/AIDS, and Anti-Trafficking in India

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book will fill a gap in existing research by investigating what it means to be a sex worker in Sonagachi struggling for labour rights based on their lived experiences and bring focus to their struggles for rights and acknowledgement as equal members of society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009235501
• ISBN-10: 1009235508
• Artikelnr.: 67829636

Autorenporträt

Simanti Dasgupta is Associate Professor of Anthropology and the director of the International Studies Program at the University of Dayton. Her research interest lies in the politics of citizenship and belonging in postcolonial and neoliberal nation-states. She has published in PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review; Anti-Trafficking Review, Opendemocracy: Beyond trafficking and slavery and The Conversation. She is the author of BITS of Belonging: Information Technology, Water and Neoliberal Governance in India (Temple University Press, 2015).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of images
Introduction: The Karmi [Worker]: From Pesha (Prostitution) to Kaaj (Sex Work)
1. The Laboring Gatar: The Body Between Suffering and Risk
2. Condom-Wallis [Condom Sellers] and Condom Narratives
3. The Politics of Victimhood: Pachar and Trafficking
4. The Mela, Unfreedom and Mobility
Epilogue: Another Virus, Another Lockdown with Tarun Basu
Bibliography
Index.