Sex Work In Nepal

Author : Lisa Caviglia
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351393308
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sex Work in Nepal written by Lisa Caviglia and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores ‘sex work’ in Nepal as a social and analytical category. Narrating stories of those subsumed under such definition, it examines changes as well as continuities characterising socio-cultural norms and perceptions through an analysis of sexual consumption. It also highlights the ways in which the development sector, media, and local community discourses frame ‘sex work’ as a distinct category. How does the work of development aid projects affect the understanding of the sex worker category? How are visual and media images employed to mark spaces of perdition in the Nepalese urban setting and what forms of imagination do they trigger? How are intimate practices and relations transformed by imported notions of love, and how do standards of propriety related to such interactions shift? This book attempts to answer some of these questions. An in-depth and intimate ethnography, the book deconstructs the sex worker category against the backdrop of global influences within local urban surroundings and points to the contradictions therein. Furthermore, through thorough descriptions of the experiences, agency, decision-making processes, and lives of those labelled as sex workers, the book challenges concepts such as deviance and victimhood. It proposes a counternarrative by rethinking ideas of gender, objectification, marginality, symbolic violence, and discrimination. This book will greatly interest researchers and scholars in women and gender studies, sociology and social anthropology, South Asian studies and social sciences, as well as NGOs and those involved in the development sector.

Author : Susanne Åsman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498558550
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bombay Going written by Susanne Åsman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susanne Åsman's compelling ethnographic account examines migration for sex work in the Sindhupalchowk district of Nepal. Åsman explores how this migration, known as "Bombay Going," is understood by the locals. With a focus on agency, Åsman investigates how the migrants carve out a space for themselves and create relatedness in the spaces in between, from their homes in rural Nepal to the brothels of Mumbai. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the politics of sex trafficking, gender, migration, or the global south.

Author : Sutirtha Sahariah
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000482952
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sex Work, Labour, and Empowerment written by Sutirtha Sahariah and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-25 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an analysis of the concepts of female empowerment and resilience against violence in the informal entertainment and sex industries. Generally, the key debates on sex work have centred on arguments proposed by the oppressive and empowerment paradigms. This book moves away from such debates to look widely at the micro issues such as the role of income in the lives of sex workers, the significance of peer organisations and networks of women, and how resilience is enacted and empowerment experienced. It also uses positive deviancy theory as a useful strategy to bring about notable changes in terms of empowerment and agency for women working in this sector and also for addressing the wider issues of migration, HIV/AIDS, and violence against women and girls. The focus is on moving beyond a victimisation framework without downplaying the extent of the violence that women in this industry experience. It conceptualises the theories of empowerment and power which have not been tested against women who work in this sector, combined with in-depth interviews with women working in the industry as well as academics, activists, and personnel in the NGO and donor sector. In doing so, it informs the reader of the numerous social, political, and economic factors that structure and sustain the global growth of the industry and analyses the diverse factors that lead many thousands of women and girls around the world to work in this sector. The work presents an important contribution to the study of citizenship and rights from a non-Western angle and will be of interest to academics, researchers, and policymakers across human rights, sociology, economics, and development studies.

Author : Human Rights Watch (Organization)
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
ISBN 13 : 9781564321558
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rape for Profit written by Human Rights Watch (Organization) and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 1995 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At least hundreds of thousands, and probably more than a million women and children are employed in Indian brothels. Many are victims of the increasingly widespread practice of trafficking in persons across international borders. In India, a large percentage of the victims are women and girls from Nepal. This report focuses on the trafficking of girls and women from Nepal to brothels in Bombay, where nongovernmental organizations say they comprise up to half of the city's estimated 100,000 brothel workers. Twenty percent of Bombay's brothel population is thought to be girls under the age of eighteen, and half of that population may be infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Trafficking victims in India are subjected to conditions tantamount to slavery and to serious physical abuse. Held in debt bondage for years at a time, they are raped and subjected to other forms of torture, to severe beatings, exposure to AIDS, and arbitrary imprisonment.

Author : Susan Dewey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351133896
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Routledge International Handbook of Sex Industry Research written by Susan Dewey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-11-26 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nepal, Trafficking in Girls with Special Reference to Prostitution written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dennis Altman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226016054
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Sex written by Dennis Altman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Sex is the first major work to take on the globalization of sexuality, examining the ways in which desire and pleasure—as well as ideas about gender, political power, and public health—are framed, shaped, or commodified by a global economy in which more and more cultures move into ever-closer contact.

Author : Pauline O'dea
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender Exploitation and Violence written by Pauline O'dea and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lenore Manderson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000144003
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coming of Age in South and Southeast Asia written by Lenore Manderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, first feminist considerations, and now concerns with HIV/Aids have led to new approaches to the study of sexuality. The experience of puberty, explorations with sexuality and courtship, and the pressure to reproduce are a few of the human tensions central to this volume.

Author : Yubaraj Sangroula
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trafficking of Girls and Women in Nepal written by Yubaraj Sangroula and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: