... brought up this case is to show how the Westerns perceive Asia more generally with the commodification of sexuality and by implication, the presumed low status of women in Asia (Manderson and Margaret Jolly(eds), 1997). If one can refer to appendice2, a Dutch sex tour pamphlet, one will be ... p267). This will make the sex-workers even more vulnerable and silent, hidden in the web of social injustice, where women shall never achieve equal status as men that modern feminists are striving for. Instead of trying to reform them [the sex-workers], we must reform social attitudes which treat s...

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... like India where there is both scarcity and an unequal distribution of land, coupled with a large mass of rural population reeling with abject poverty, there is a compelling political and economic argument for land reforms. It has received top priority on the policy agenda since the time of independence. In the subsequent decades since the independence India has passed a substantial ... distribution to landless farmers. Abolition of intermediaries was a heavy burden on the state exchequer. It led to large-scale eviction. This in turn led to several problems – social, economic, administ...

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... life period relative to men's. An increase in the advocacy ofhuman rights, whether as women's rights or as children's rights, has caused traditions of child Child marriages may depend upon socio-economic status. The aristocracy of some cultures, as in the European feudal era tended to use child marriage as a method to secure political ties. Families are able to cement political and/or ... ...

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