1st Edition
Towards a Southern Approach to Sex Work Lived Experience and Resilience in a Bangladeshi Brothel
1 Introduction 1
2 Status of women and sex workers in Bangladesh 18
3 Feminism and sex work 30
4 Global sex work: The North and the South 53
5 Entry and modes of sex work 72
6 Work and pleasure 94
7 Mothers and daughters 113
8 Risk and violence 127
9 Conclusion 142
Biography
Habiba Sultana is Associate Professor at Jagannath University, Bangladesh, where she has been teaching since 2009. Her research focuses on sex work, HIV, AIDS, Sustainable Development, Injecting Drug Use, Caste, Social Stratification and Globalization. Sultana holds a PhD from the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia and a Master in Public Policy degree from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. She has published articles on the subject of sex work, HIV and caste system in Bangladesh.
