The dancing girls of Lahore; selling love and saving dreams in Pakistan's ancient pleasure district.0060740426 The dancing girls See Opera girl of Lahore Lahore (ləhôr`), city (1998 pop. 5,063,499), capital of Punjab prov., E central Pakistan, on the Ravi River. It is the second largest city of Pakistan. ; selling love and saving dreams in Pakistan's ancient pleasure district. Brown, Louise. Fourth Estate 2005 311 pages $23.95 Hardcover HQ1745 By the standards of almost any culture, particularly their own, they are unclean. They are born into the business, and the sale of their virginity Virginity See also Chastity, Purity. Agnes, St. patron saint of virgins. [Christian Hagiog.: Brewer Dictionary, 16] Atala Indian maiden learns too late she can be released from her vow to remain a virgin. [Fr. Lit. , and their daughters' virginity, is often necessary for their family's survival. Their lives are proscribed PROSCRIBED, civil law. Among the Romans, a man was said to be proscribed when a reward was offered for his head; but the term was more usually applied to those who were sentenced to some punishment which carried with it the consequences of civil death. Code, 9; 49. and in that small space often chaotic, especially when they dare to behave for one second like other women. Brown (sociology, Birmingham U.) writes with a novelist's sense of what is important in her account, taken from four years of diaries of her experiences living with a family of prostitutes in Lahore, Pakistan. She does not flinch flinch intr.v. flinched, flinch·ing, flinch·es 1. To start or wince involuntarily, as from surprise or pain. 2. To recoil, as from something unpleasant or difficult; shrink. n. from the reality of the women's situation, but she is also sensitive to their ability to live on hope, in many cases, the hope of a time when they will not be bought and sold. ([c] 2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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