Anuja Agrawal

Chaste Wives and Prostitute Sisters

Patriarchy and Prostitution Among the Bedias of India

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is an anthropological study of the unusual coincidence of prostitution and patriarchy among an extremely marginalized group in north India, the Bedias, who are also a de-notified community.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 166mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9780415430777
• ISBN-10: 0415430771
• Artikelnr.: 22517341

Autorenporträt

Anuja Agrawal is Reader at the Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. As a commonwealth scholar for the years 2000-01, she was visiting research scholar at the Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research interests have focused on issues of gender identity, marginality and ideologies. She has published several articles in referred journals and is the editor of the book, Migrant Women and Work.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Prostitution as 'Tradition' 2. The Making of a Bedia
Prostitute 3. Bedia Women and 'Love Marriage' 4. Prostitution as Family
Economy 5. Prostitution and the Indolence of Bedia Men 6. Prostitution and
the Marriage Economy 7. The Morality of the Bedia Economy. Conclusion:
Patriarchy at the Margins