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

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.

Record details

ISBN: 0822376512
ISBN: 9780822376514
Physical Description: 1 online resource (277 pages)
Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:september.21 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. Day Wage Labor and Migration: Making Ends Meet; Chapter 2. Sex, Work, and Silence from the Construction Workers' Naka; Chapter 3. Sex Work and the Street; Chapter 4. Red-Light Districts, Rescue, and Real Estate; Conclusion. Agency, Livelihoods, and Spaces; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription.
Language Note:	English.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by JSTOR.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.