Politics / Members-only Gloria Steinem’s crusade against sex work taints her legacy in Southasia Southasian sex workers defied the iconic feminist’s view of “prostitution” as “commercial rape” – and built a movement for their own empowerment By Meena Saraswathi Seshu and Laxmi Murthy / 18 Sep 2026
Archives / Members-only Sex and the pity Is sex work violence against women? This question has been posed countless times by friends within the women's movement. It is not necessarily asked from a moralistic viewpoint, By Meena Saraswathi Seshu / 1 Aug 2010
