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Society and Sex Work in
The Autobiography of a Sex Worker by Nalini Jameela

Manoj Kumar Garg, M.A., M.Phil.


Abstract

Sex workers are part of society but they are looked down upon as outcast in Indian society. They are exploited, insulted and humiliated. Even female sex workers are not taken as women rather taken as mere sex objects. Nalini Jameela portrays their plight through her biography The Autobiography of a Sex Worker. She herself has worked as a sex worker. She doesn’t condemn the sex work rather takes it as a profession. This paper studies the problems faced by the sex workers, dual standards of society, and resilience of the sex workers.

Keywords: Sex work, Prostitution, Devadasi, Treatment of Sex Workers in India, Nalini Jameela

Introduction

Indian society is a male-dominated society. Women are considered inferior to men. They are given secondary status. They are marginalized on the basis of color, class, caste, gender, sexuality and ethnicity. But if a woman is a sex worker as well, she faces double oppression- as a woman as well as a sex worker. She is humiliated, insulted, exploited and marginalized. She is treated as an untouchable and looked down upon as outcast.

It is a hard fact that no woman adopts sex work by her wish, rather society and conditions compel her to venture into this trade. But not many try to find the circumstances in which she had to step into this profession. Nalini Jameela portrays the plight of sex workers through her autobiography - The Autobiography of a Sex Worker.

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Manoj Kumar Garg, M.A., M.Phil.
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Acharya Narendra Dev College
University of Delhi
Govindpuri, Kalkaji
New Delhi- 110019
India
mkgarg12@gmail.com

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