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SUMMARY:Spurious Divide?: Sex Work Communities and Respectable Society in Kolkata
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 	Presented by Professor Heather Dell, University 
 of Illinois Springfield. Is there a divide 
 between sex worker communities and respectable 
 society in Kolkata? For male sex worker 
 clients, this perception of difference seems 
 to allow for the confirmation of a dominant masculinity, 
 enactment of non-marital masculinities 
 or the performance of a masculine abject. 
 Yet, for sex workers, crossing the invisible 
 divide out of the red light district into 
 supposedly respectable society seems to confirm 
 a system of a gendered and sexualized apartheid, 
 where they frequently must pass or face 
 violence. Sex worker activists having been 
 challenging this "divide" for decades, 
 as citizens of a shared location who are 
 working for social change.\n
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 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: Asian Studies Center\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://asianstudies.msu.edu/\n
LOCATION:303 International Center
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