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Book Review. Prabha Kotiswaran: Dangerous Sex, Invisible Labour. Sex Work and the Law in India

Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, 2011, 263 pp

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Mancuso, M. Book Review. Prabha Kotiswaran: Dangerous Sex, Invisible Labour. Sex Work and the Law in India. Eur J Crim Policy Res 18, 303–305 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10610-012-9172-4

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