SOC380H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Indian Penal Code, Safe Sex, Governmentality
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Hiv is our friend : prostitution, biopower, and the state in postcolonial india- Lakkimsetti: protestproposednewamendmentsto the immoral traf c prevention act itpa . If passed, the amendments would have criminalized clients and de ned all forms of prostitution as sexual exploitation. These sex workers protested that the amendments would interfere with the hiv/aids prevention work they were undertaking, threaten their livelihoods, and make them more vulnerable to violence and disease. The protestors demanded to be included in making decisions about laws and policies with implications for their lives and work. Responding to their protest, the indian government appointed a committee to hold broad-based deliberations on the issue. By march 2007, sex workers and their advocates had fostered major disagreements about the amendment among various ministries of the. Indian state, and the legislation stalled the civic power demonstrated by the sex workers" public mobilization is also related to a wider shift in the modalities of state power in the late.
