International Journal of Gender & Women's Studies

Feminity and Female Genocide- Girls Trafficking to Sex Trade and Female Sex Workers: An Experience from Sex Industry/Sex Workers’ Community
Harasankar Adhikari

Abstract
This paper examines various roles played by females sex workers(FSWs) to keep alive their stigmatized trade. FSWs used to commit feminine genocide deliberately for their survival in their community. The study was conducted on brothel based FSWs of Bowbazar red-light area of Kolkata, India. For this purpose 220 FSWs(out of 2200) were selected randomly according to their religion, age at the time of entry, recruitment process and nature of connecting person, etc. The case studies were used to analyze qualitatively their involvement in feminine genocide. The study revealed that about 62% of FSWs entered into the trade where the females were their connecting persons. It had been seen that FSWs played their roles as acceptors, provocators and defective mothers to push the new one into their trade. It reminds us that large scale awareness and education would be provided to FSWs to prevent and control the entry of new one into the trade. Thus beside patriarchy system, female could be able to protect their feminity.

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