Sex Work in Nepal

Sex Work in Nepal
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Publisher : Routledge Chapman & Hall
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 036734517X
ISBN-13 : 9780367345174
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Book Synopsis Sex Work in Nepal by : Lisa Caviglia

Download or read book Sex Work in Nepal written by Lisa Caviglia and published by Routledge Chapman & Hall. This book was released on 2019-06-09 with total page 256 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.


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