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Prostitution, Resistance and Resilience in South Asian Fiction: Triply Colonized Women book cover

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Prostitution, Resistance and Resilience in South Asian Fiction Triply Colonized Women

By Sadaf Mehmood Copyright 2027
242 Pages
by Routledge

Frequently labelled as the world’s oldest profession, prostitution is often treated as a naturalized social formation, overlooking its historical and cultural specificity. This book focuses on the practices of prostitution in postcolonial South Asia, where it predominantly involves men purchasing sexual services from women. It examines the ternary colonization of South Asian women in... Read more

Acknowledgements. Introduction 1. The Sexualistory: Law, Nation and Morality Part I 2. The Decline of the Courtesan under the Empire  3. Politics of Reformation: Troupes of Womanhood and (de)Sexualising Femininity 4. The Heterotopic Invisibility: The Experience of Partition Part II 5. Dialectic of Caste/Class: Female Body as a Disposable Commodity 6. Tropes of Dehumanisation: Brothels as Industries of Flesh 7. Sexual Bargaining: A Postscript of Resistance and Resilience. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index.

Biography

Sadaf Mehmood is an Assistant Professor at Quaid-i-Azam University, Pakistan. She is also a Global South Fellow at the University of Birmingham, UK. She has been awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship to pursue her Ph.D. research at the University of Huddersfield, UK. Her doctoral research examines historical silences and marginalized narratives in postcolonial contexts, contributing to critical debates on power, representation, and resistance in South Asian Fiction.

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