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

by Anuja Agrawal (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2007

  $136.78

  An anthropological study of the coincidence of prostitution and patriarchy among the Bedias, who are a de-notified community. This book describes the implications of a practice of familial prostitution on the kinship structures and marriage practices of the community. It explores the manner in which this familial economy manifests itself.