Sex Work in Nepal

<p></p><p>This book explores ‘sex work’ in Nepal as a social and analytical category. Narrating stories of those subsumed under such definition, it examines changes as well as continuities characterising socio-cultural norms and perceptions through an analysis of sexual consumption. It also highlights the ways in which the development sec</p> <p><em>List of Illustrations. Preface. Acknowledgements. Abbreviations </em><strong>1.</strong> Drawing Boundaries: An Introduction <strong>2.</strong> An Incomplete Feminist Ethnography <strong>3.</strong> The 'Sex Worker' as Category <strong>4.</strong> Representations of Sex Work in Nepal: Othering Cycles <strong>5.</strong> Space and Women in Urban Nepal <strong>6.</strong> Exchanging Intimacy <strong>7.</strong> Transnational Movements and the 'Body' as Capital Investment <strong>8.</strong> Towards a Conclusion: Negotiating Selves Between Categories. Epilogue: Sex Work, an Unpacked Category. <em>Appendix 1. Appendix 2.</em> <i>References. Index</i></p>