Sex For Sale: People As Consumable Objects
Women have been stigmatized and commodified for millennia as institutional and structural norms seek to control their sexuality. We examine this condition in the context of sex workers in Calcutta, India who are bought-and-sold through prostitution, culminating in a set of identifiable selves that work to protest this status.
Citation:
Ron Hill and Himadri Chaudhuri (2021) ,"Sex For Sale: People As Consumable Objects", in NA - Advances in Consumer Research Volume 49, eds. Tonya Williams Bradford, Anat Keinan, and Matthew Matthew Thomson, Duluth, MN : Association for Consumer Research, Pages: 179-180.
Authors
Ron Hill, American University
Himadri Chaudhuri, Xavier School of Management
Volume
NA - Advances in Consumer Research Volume 49 | 2021
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