This book explores 'sex-work' in Nepal as a social and analytical category. It examines changes as well as continuities characterizing 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 category.
This book explores 'sex-work' in Nepal as a social and analytical category. It examines changes as well as continuities characterizing 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 category.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Lisa Caviglia is Lecturer and Researcher at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany and Coordinator of its Global and Area Studies programme. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Medical Biochemistry from King's College London, UK, and a master of science in International Health from Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin. Previously, she was based in Eastern Nepal, working on development projects in a remote rural area followed by a period of research in Mongolia that focused on women engaging in sex work in the capital, Ulan Bator, a study conducted in collaboration with the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ). She was awarded a PhD scholarship as part of the Graduate Programme for Transcultural Studies of the Cluster of Excellence 'Asia and Europe in a Global Context' at Heidelberg University. She currently works on women's labour migration from Nepal to the Southern European fringe and South East Asia, funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and the Gender Equality Section of Humboldt University.
Inhaltsangabe
List of Illustrations. Preface. Acknowledgements. Abbreviations 1. Drawing Boundaries: An Introduction 2. An Incomplete Feminist Ethnography 3. The 'Sex Worker' as Category 4. Representations of Sex Work in Nepal: Othering Cycles 5. Space and Women in Urban Nepal 6. Exchanging Intimacy 7. Transnational Movements and the 'Body' as Capital Investment 8. Towards a Conclusion: Negotiating Selves Between Categories. Epilogue: Sex Work, an Unpacked Category. Appendix 1. Appendix 2. References. Index
List of Illustrations. Preface. Acknowledgements. Abbreviations 1. Drawing Boundaries: An Introduction 2. An Incomplete Feminist Ethnography 3. The 'Sex Worker' as Category 4. Representations of Sex Work in Nepal: Othering Cycles 5. Space and Women in Urban Nepal 6. Exchanging Intimacy 7. Transnational Movements and the 'Body' as Capital Investment 8. Towards a Conclusion: Negotiating Selves Between Categories. Epilogue: Sex Work, an Unpacked Category. Appendix 1. Appendix 2. References. Index
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