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Girl, Woman, Lover, Mother: Towards A New Understanding Of Child Prostitution Among Young Devadasi Sex Workers In Rural Karnataka, India, Treena Orchard
Girl, Woman, Lover, Mother: Towards A New Understanding Of Child Prostitution Among Young Devadasi Sex Workers In Rural Karnataka, India, Treena Orchard
Dr. Treena Orchard
The emotive issue of child prostitution is at the heart of international debates over ‘trafficking’ in women and girls, the “new slave trade”, and how these phenomena are linked with globalization, sex tourism, and expanding transnational economies. However, young sex workers, particularly those in the ‘third world’, are often represented through tropes of victimization, poverty, and “backwards” cultural traditions, constructions that rarely capture the complexity of the girls’ experiences and the role that prostitution plays in their lives. Based on ethnographic fieldwork with girls and young women who are part of the Devadasi (servant/slave of the God) system of sex …
Failed Families And Quiet Individualism: Domestic Abuse And Women's Strategies Of Resistance In Urban Taiwan, Marc L. Moskowitz
Failed Families And Quiet Individualism: Domestic Abuse And Women's Strategies Of Resistance In Urban Taiwan, Marc L. Moskowitz
Marc L. Moskowitz
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Migration Politics And Human Rights.Pdf, Óscar G. Gil-García
Migration Politics And Human Rights.Pdf, Óscar G. Gil-García
Óscar F. Gil-García