• ISBN13: 9789381017814
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Sociology and Anthropology
• Publisher: Zubaan
• Publisher Imprint: Zubaan
• Publication Date: June 15, 2014
• Pages: 248
• Original Price: INR 695.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 430 grams

Mainstream feminist discourse has failed to fully engage with commercial sex work. In a series of essays, this book corrects this lacuna. Moving beyond the traditional feminist focus on slavery and trafficking, HIV/AIDS, and other health issues, it features contributors who engage fully with the political and theoretical implications of sex work.

Laxmi Murthy is a consulting editor at Himal Southasian and heads the Hri Institute for Southasian Research and Exchange. Meena Saraswathi Seshu is the general secretary of SANGRAM, an organization in Sangli, Maharashtra, that works to protect the rights of sex workers, as well as people living with HIV/AIDS.