Chaste Wives and Prostitute Sisters: Patriarchy and Prostitution Among the Bedias of India

This book is an anthropological study of the unusual coincidence of prostitution and patriarchy among an extremely marginalized group in north India, the Bedias, who are also a de-notified community.

Author: Anuja Agrawal
Publisher: Routledge India
Published: 04/01/2007
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 8.86h x 6.54w x 0.85d
ISBN: 9780415430777

About the Author

Anuja Agrawal is Reader at the Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. As a commonwealth scholar for the years 2000-01, she was visiting research scholar at the Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research interests have focused on issues of gender identity, marginality and ideologies. She has published several articles in referred journals and is the editor of the book, Migrant Women and Work.