Chaste Wives and Prostitute Sisters

Name: Chaste Wives and Prostitute Sisters
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Chaste Wives and Prostitute SistersPatriarchy and Prostitution among the Bedias of India\nAuthor(s): Anuja Agrawal\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge India\nISBN-13: 9781138376786, 978-1138376786\nSynopsis\nThis 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. \n\nIt is the first detailed account of the implications of a systematic practice of familial prostitution on the kinship structures and marriage practices of a community. This starkly manifests among the Bedias in the clear separation between sisters and daughters who engage in prostitution and wives and daughters-in-law who do not. The Bedias exemplify a situation in which prostitution of young unmarried women is the mainstay of the familial economy of an entire social group. Tracing the recent origins of the practice in the c.