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Reproductive Health Matters
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Volume 12, 2004 - Issue 23: Sexuality, rights and social justice
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Searching for Justice for Body and Self in a Coercive Environment

Sex Work in Kerala, India

Pages 58-67 | Published online: 18 May 2004

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DC Nanjunda Devajana & S. Jyothi Lakshmi. (2023) Children of Female Sex workers: A Study of Situation and Vulnerability in Karnataka State-South India. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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P. SwathishaSibnath Deb. (2022) Challenges Faced by Female Commercial Sex Workers in Puducherry, India: A Qualitative Inquiry. Indian Journal of Gender Studies 29:2, pages 258-272.
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Moshoula Capous-Desyllas, Deana Payne & Meg Panichelli. (2020) Using Anticarceral Feminism to Illustrate the Impact of Criminalization on the Lives of Individuals in the Sex Trades. Affilia 36:4, pages 511-532.
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Stephen MorewitzStephen Morewitz. 2019. Kidnapping and Violence. Kidnapping and Violence 87 126 .
Premala Matthen, Tara Lyons, Matthew Taylor, James Jennex, Solanna Anderson, Jody Jollimore & Kate Shannon. (2016) “I Walked into the Industry for Survival and Came Out of a Closet”. Men and Masculinities 21:4, pages 479-500.
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Sawmya Ray. (2018) In a State of Limbo: Women, Sex Industry and Anti-trafficking Interventions in Assam. Sociological Bulletin 67:2, pages 156-172.
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Megan C. Stanton & Toorjo Ghose. (2017) Community-Led Economic Initiatives with Sex Workers: Establishing a Conceptual Framework for a Multidimensional Structural Intervention. Sexuality Research and Social Policy 14:4, pages 454-466.
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Arathi P.M. Athira P.M.. (2017) Legislation to Practice: An Analysis of Domestic Violence Cases from Kerala’s Lower Courts. Social Change 47:2, pages 230-242.
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Dallas Swendeman, Anne E. Fehrenbacher, Samira Ali, Sheba George, Deborah Mindry, Mallory Collins, Toorjo Ghose & Bharati Dey. (2015) “Whatever I Have, I Have Made by Coming into this Profession”: The Intersection of Resources, Agency, and Achievements in Pathways to Sex Work in Kolkata, India. Archives of Sexual Behavior 44:4, pages 1011-1023.
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Toorjo Ghose, Anuradha Chowdhury, Phyllis Solomon & Samira Ali. (2013) Depression and anxiety among HIV-positive sex workers in Kolkata, India: Testing and modifying the Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale. International Social Work 58:2, pages 211-222.
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Smarajit Jana, Bharati Dey, Sushena Reza-Paul & Richard Steen. (2014) Combating human trafficking in the sex trade: can sex workers do it better?. Journal of Public Health 36:4, pages 622-628.
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Anna Szörényi. (2014) Rethinking the Boundaries: Towards a Butlerian Ethics of Vulnerability in Sex Trafficking Debates. Feminist Review 107:1, pages 20-36.
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Niranjan Saggurti, Saritha Nair, Jay G. Silverman, Dattaram D. Naik, Madhusudana Battala, Anindita Dasgupta, Donta Balaiah & Anita Raj. (2014) Impact of the RHANI Wives intervention on marital conflict and sexual coercion. International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics 126:1, pages 18-22.
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Smriti Agarwal & Pedro de Araujo. (2014) Access to Media and HIV Knowledge in India. Economies 2:2, pages 124-146.
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Samira Ali, Toorjo Ghose, Smarajit Jana & Sambuddha Chaudhuri. (2014) Exceeding the Individual: a Qualitative Examination of a Community-Led Structural Intervention and Its Implications for Sex Workers and Their Families. Global Social Welfare 1:2, pages 53-63.
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Monica D. Ulibarri, Steffanie A. Strathdee, Remedios Lozada, Carlos Magis-Rodriguez, Hortensia Amaro, Patricia O’Campo & Thomas L. Patterson. (2014) Prevalence and Correlates of Client-Perpetrated Abuse Among Female Sex Workers in Two Mexico–U.S. Border Cities. Violence Against Women 20:4, pages 427-445.
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Jacqueline Comte. (2013) Decriminalization of Sex Work: Feminist Discourses in Light of Research. Sexuality & Culture 18:1, pages 196-217.
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Prarthana K.G, Bharath T & Suja P. (2013) A STUDY OF FORCED VITAL CAPACITY IN DIFFERENT PHASES OF MENSTRUAL CYCLE AND ITS CORRELATION WITH SERUM PROGESTERONE AND BODY MASS INDEX IN LUTEAL PHASE AMONG HEALTHY FEMALES. Journal of Evolution of Medical and Dental sciences 2:30, pages 5676-5681.
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Anisa Heravian, Raja Solomon, Gopal Krishnan, C.K. Vasudevan, A.K. Krishnan, Thomas Osmand & Maria L. Ekstrand. (2012) Alcohol consumption patterns and sexual risk behavior among female sex workers in two South Indian communities. International Journal of Drug Policy 23:6, pages 498-504.
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Souradet Y. Shaw, Robert R. Lorway, Kathleen N. Deering, Lisa Avery, H. L. Mohan, Parinita Bhattacharjee, Sushena Reza-Paul, Shajy Isac, Banadakoppa M. Ramesh, Reynold Washington, Stephen Moses & James F. Blanchard. (2012) Factors Associated with Sexual Violence against Men Who Have Sex with Men and Transgendered Individuals in Karnataka, India. PLoS ONE 7:3, pages e31705.
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Veronica Magar. (2012) Rescue and Rehabilitation: A Critical Analysis of Sex Workers’ Antitrafficking Response in India. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 37:3, pages 619-644.
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Tahziba Hussain, K.K. Kulshreshtha, Sumita Sood, Bharti Devi, Bharti Verma, Kripa Shanker Sharma & V.S. Yadav. (2012) Health risks among female sex workers of Agra, India: Implications for HIV/AIDS/STDs prevention. HIV & AIDS Review 11:1, pages 15-19.
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U. VindhyaV. Swathi Dev. (2011) Survivors of Sex Trafficking in Andhra Pradesh. Indian Journal of Gender Studies 18:2, pages 129-165.
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Tara SH Beattie, Parinita Bhattacharjee, BM Ramesh, Vandana Gurnani, John Anthony, Shajy Isac, HL Mohan, Aparajita Ramakrishnan, Tisha Wheeler, Janet Bradley, James F Blanchard & Stephen Moses. (2010) Violence against female sex workers in Karnataka state, south India: impact on health, and reductions in violence following an intervention program. BMC Public Health 10:1.
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Sharvari Karandikar & Moisés Próspero. (2009) From Client to Pimp. Journal of Interpersonal Violence 25:2, pages 257-273.
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Raluca Buzdugan, Shiva S. Halli & Frances M. Cowan. (2009) The female sex work typology in India in the context of HIV/AIDS. Tropical Medicine & International Health 14:6, pages 673-687.
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Geetha Suresh, L. Allen Furr & Aylur Kailasom Srikrishnan. (2009) An Assessment of the Mental Health of Street-Based Sex Workers in Chennai, India. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice 25:2, pages 186-201.
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Milena Simić & Tim Rhodes. (2009) Violence, dignity and HIV vulnerability: street sex work in Serbia. Sociology of Health & Illness 31:1, pages 1-16.
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Kim M Blankenship, Brooke S West, Trace S Kershaw & Monica R Biradavolu. (2008) Power, community mobilization, and condom use practices among female sex workers in Andhra Pradesh, India. AIDS 22:Suppl 5, pages S109-S116.
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Graham Scambler & Frederique Paoli. (2008) Health work, female sex workers and HIV/AIDS: Global and local dimensions of stigma and deviance as barriers to effective interventions. Social Science & Medicine 66:8, pages 1848-1862.
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Subadra Panchanadeswaran, Sethulakshmi C. Johnson, Sudha Sivaram, A.K. Srikrishnan, Carl Latkin, Margaret E. Bentley, Suniti Solomon, Vivian F. Go & David Celentano. (2008) Intimate partner violence is as important as client violence in increasing street-based female sex workers’ vulnerability to HIV in India. International Journal of Drug Policy 19:2, pages 106-112.
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Rosalind P. Petchesky. (2007) Droits du corps et perversions de la guerre : droits et violences sexuels dix ans après Beijing. Revue internationale des sciences sociales n° 184:2, pages 329-348.
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