The Stickiness of Sex Work: Pleasure, Habit, and Intersubstantiality in South India
| Autor: | Kimberly Walters |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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060101 anthropology
media_common.quotation_subject Gender studies 06 humanities and the arts Pleasure Gender Studies 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Work (electrical) 0601 history and archaeology 030212 general & internal medicine Sociology Habit Social psychology Sex work media_common |
| Zdroj: | Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 42:99-121 |
| ISSN: | 1545-6943 0097-9740 |
| DOI: | 10.1086/686754 |
| Popis: | Sex work has often been analyzed in terms of labor rights, but this approach captures little of what becomes of women’s bodies, their desires, and their experiences of class and gender through regular participation in commercial sex. I argue that women in Hyderabad, South India, understand themselves to be bodily transformed by the “hot” substances and pleasures that pervade sex work. Sex work can create dangers, but in contrast to other forms of work available to nonelite women in South India, the freedoms and pleasures made possible through sex work belie transnational attempts to construe this work as “modern-day slavery.” Women describe themselves as “stuck” to sex work not through the force of others but through an acquired material affinity for the work itself. An understanding of the bodily habit of sex work indicates that for those who “have the habit,” sex work in India should be understood in ontological terms of making persons. |
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