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The Dancing Girls of Lahore: Selling Love and Saving Dreams in Pakistan's Pleasure District

The Dancing Girls of Lahore: Selling Love and Saving Dreams in Pakistan's Pleasure District

Brown, Louise

Paperback

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral SociologyWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0060740434
ISBN13: 9780060740436
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: Jul 3 2006
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.02 Depth: 7.96
Language: English

An unforgettable and compassionate look at the lives of the residents of Lahore's pleasure district

The Dancing Girls of Lahore inhabit the Diamond District in the shadow of a great mosque. The 21st century goes on outside the walls, this ancient quarter, but scarcely registers within. Though their trade can be described with accuracy as prostitution, the dancing girls have an illustrious history: beloved by sultans, their sophisticated art encompassed the best of Mughal culture. The modern day Bollywood aesthetic, with its love of gaudy spectacle, music, and dance, is their distant legacy. But the life of the pampered courtesan is not the one now being lived by Maha and her three girls. What they do is forbidden by Islam, though tolerated; but they are, unclean, and Maha's daughters, like her, are born into the business and will not leave it.

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