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Authored Books

Kotiswaran, Prabha (2011) Dangerous Sex, Invisible Labor: Sex Work and the Law in India. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Ashiagbor, Diamond, Kotiswaran, Prabha and Perry-Kessaris, Amanda, eds. (2013) Towards an Economic Sociology of Law. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. (Journal of Law and Society Special Issues)

Kotiswaran, Prabha, ed. (2011) Sex Work. New Delhi: Women Unlimited (previously Kali for Women). (Issues in Contemporary Indian Feminism)

Book Chapters

Hamzić, Vanja (2019) 'A Cry for Madness: Governance Feminism and Neoliberal Consonance in Pakistan.' In: Halley, Janet, Kotiswaran, Prabha, Rebouché, R. and Shamir, Hila, (eds.), Governance Feminism: Notes from the Field. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, pp. 407-433.

Kotiswaran, Prabha (2011) 'Introduction to Reader on Sex Work.' In: Reader on Sex Work. New Delhi: Women Unlimited. (Issues in Contemporary Indian Feminism)

Kotiswaran, Prabha (2010) 'Labours in Vice or Virtue? Neo-Liberalism, Sexual Commerce and the Case of Indian Bar Dancing.' In: Scoular, Jane and Sanders, Teela L.M., (eds.), Regulating Sex/Work: From Crime Control to Neo-liberalism. Malden, MA: Wiley, pp. 105-124.

Kotiswaran, Prabha (2007) 'Wives and Whores: Prospects for a Feminist Theory of Redistribution.' In: Stychin, Carl F. and Munro, Vanessa E., (eds.), Sexuality and the Law: Feminist Engagements. Oxon, New York: Routledge-Cavendish.

Kotiswaran, Prabha (2007) 'Wives and Whores: The Regulation of the Economies in Sexual Labour.' In: Parashar, Archana and Dhanda, Amita, (eds.), Redefining Family Law in India Essays in Honour of B. Sivaramayya. New Delhi: Routledge India.

Journal Article

Kotiswaran, Prabha (2013) '“Sword or Shield?” The Role of the Law in the Indian Sex Workers’ Movement.' Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 15 (4). pp. 530-548.

Kotiswaran, Prabha (2012) 'Vulnerability in Domestic Discourses on Trafficking: Reflections on the Indian Experience.' Feminist Legal Studies, 20 (3). pp. 245-262.

Kotiswaran, Prabha (2010) 'Labours in Vice or Virtue? Neo-Liberalism, Sexual Commerce and the Case of Indian Bar Dancing.' Journal of Law and Society, 37 (1). pp. 105-124.

Kotiswaran, Prabha (2008) 'Born Unto Brothels: Towards A Legal Ethnography of Sonagachi's Sex Industry.' Law & Social Inquiry, 33 (3). pp. 579-629.

Kotiswaran, Prabha, Halley, Janet, Shamir, Hila and Thomas, Chantal (2006) 'From the International to the Local in Feminist Legal Responses to Rape, Prostitution/Sex Work, and Sex Trafficking: Four Studies in Contemporary Governance Feminism.' Harvard Journal of Law and Gender, 29 (2).

Kotiswaran, Prabha (2001) 'Preparing for Civil Disobedience: Indian Sex Workers and the Law.' Boston College Third World Law Journal, 21 (2). pp. 161-242.

Book Reviews

Kotiswaran, Prabha (2012) 'Coerced Victims or Exploited Workers? Review of Gridlock: Labor, Migration, and Human Trafficking in Dubai by Pardis Mahdavi.' Rights Work Initiative .

Kotiswaran, Prabha (2011) 'Review of 'Stages of Capital: Law, Culture, and Market Governance in Late Colonial India' by Ritu Birla (2009) and 'Global Business, Local Law: The Indian Legal System as a Communal Resource in Foreign Investment Relations' by Amanda Perry-Kessaris (2009).' Law and Society Review, 45 (2). pp. 507-511.

Kotiswaran, Prabha (2007) 'Book Review of Janet Halley’s Split Decisions: How and Why to Take a Break from Feminism.' Feminist Legal Studies, 15 (3). pp. 361-365.

Other

Kotiswaran, Prabha (2012) 'Sex Slavery or Labor Exploitation: India's Need to Rethink Trafficking.' India in Transition (IiT) . University of Pennsylvania: Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI).