How Long to Read Chaste Wives and Prostitute Sisters

How Long Does it Take to Read Chaste Wives and Prostitute Sisters?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 11 minutes to read Chaste Wives and Prostitute Sisters by Anuja Agrawal

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This book is an anthropological study of the unusual coincidence of prostitution and patriarchy among an extremely marginalized group in north India, the Bedias, who are also a de-notified community. It is the first detailed account of the implications of a systematic practice of familial prostitution on the kinship structures and marriage practices of a community. This starkly manifests among the Bedias in the clear separation between sisters and daughters who engage in prostitution and wives and daughters-in-law who do not. The Bedias exemplify a situation in which prostitution of young unmarried women is the mainstay of the familial economy of an entire social group. Tracing the recent origins of the practice in the community, the author goes on to explore the manner in which this familial economy manifests itself in the lives of individual women and the kind of family groupings it produces. She then examines the repercussion this economy has on the lives of Bedia men, how the problem of their marriage is resolved, and how the Bedia wives become repositories of female purity which otherwise stands jeopardized by Bedia sisters engaged in prostitution.

How long is Chaste Wives and Prostitute Sisters?

Chaste Wives and Prostitute Sisters by Anuja Agrawal is 191 pages long, and a total of 47,941 words.

This makes it 64% the length of the average book. It also has 59% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Chaste Wives and Prostitute Sisters Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 21 minutes to read Chaste Wives and Prostitute Sisters aloud.

What Reading Level is Chaste Wives and Prostitute Sisters?

Chaste Wives and Prostitute Sisters is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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