Born unto brothels - Toward a legal ethnography of sex work in an indian red-light area

Law and Social Inquiry

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 579-629

  Kotiswaran, Prabha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 50349090297     PISSN: 08976546     EISSN: 17474469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-4469.2008.00116.x     Document Type: Article

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