Where do good girls have sex? Space, risk and respectability in Chennai
This paper examines discourses about sexual risk and respectability in the South Indian city of Chennai, through an ethnographic study of young women’s participation in practices of public sex. Focusing on middle-class women located at the heart of neoliberal and national fantasies of the ‘good life...
Main Author: | Krishnan, S |
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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Routledge
2020
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