"HIV Is Our Friend": Prostitution, Biopower, and the State in Postcolonial India
Abstract This article examines how the AIDS epidemic reorganized the Indian state’s relationship with women in prostitution. While sex workers previously faced legal regulations that criminalized and stigmatized them, they have now become important partners in the public health projects of the India...
| Veröffentlicht in: | Signs. - University of Chicago Press, 1975. - 40(2014), 1, Seite 201-226 |
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Signs |
| Schlagworte: | Business Health sciences Political science Biological sciences Behavioral sciences |