patriarchy and prostitution among the bedias of India
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Agrawal, Anuja
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- V IND 38 2008
- Thesaurus
- prostitutie, patriarchaat, huwelijken, India, statistiek
- Description
- 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. It is a detailed account of the implications of a systematic practice of familial prostitution on the kinship structures and marriage practices of a community. Table of contents: 1. Prostitution as 'tradition', 2. The making of a Bedia prostitute, 3. Bedia women and 'love marriage', 4. Prostitution as family economy, 5. Prostitution and the indolence of Bedia men, 6. Prostitution and the marriage economy 7. The morality of the Bedia economy.