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Street Corner Secrets

Street Corner Secrets

Sex, Work, and Migration in the City of Mumbai

  • Author: Svati P Shah
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • ISBN: 9780822376514
  • Place of publication:  Durham , United States
  • Pages: 280
  • Language: English

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<div>An ethnography of women in the city of Mumbai who look for work at nakas, street corners where day laborers congregate and wait to be hired for construction jobs. Often chosen last, after male workers, or not at all, some women turn to sex work in order to make money, at the nakas, on the street, or in brothels. Svati P. Shah argues that sex work should be seen in relation to other structural inequities affecting these women’s lives, such as threats from the police and lack of access to clean water.<br></div>
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