1st Edition
Sex Work and Social Movement in India Mobilizing in the Time of Pandemics
By Toorjo Ghose
Copyright 2025
210 Pages
11 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
210 Pages
11 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
210 Pages
11 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book examines and theorizes about the emergence, growth, impact, collapse, and rejuvenation of a sex worker movement in India, exploring the manner in which the two pandemics – HIV and COVID-19 – bookended a feminist movement through more than a quarter of a century, shaping its trajectory over the course of that time.
Focusing on the sex workers’ collective Durbar Mahila Samanwaya... Read more
Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. A Conceptual Framework; Chapter 3. Political Society: Initiation and Expansion; Chapter 4. Developing Collective Identity: Cognitive And Affective Framing; Chapter 5. Mobilization and Health; Chapter 6. The Toes of Sati: Creating a Conjunctional Movement; Chapter 7. Dust From Her Doorstep: Civilizing Political Society; Chapter 8. Hybridity; Chapter 9. Disruption and Resurgent Mobilization; Chapter 10. Cyclical Society and its Implications; Index
Biography
Toorjo Ghose is Associate Professor in the School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania, USA.
