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Does your mother know? The online lives of young women in Mumbai

By Manjima Bhattacharjya and Maya Ganesh for GenderIT.org

MUMBAI, India, 29 April 2010

“And I can chat with you baby / Flirt a little, maybe / But does your mother know that you’re out ?” Twenty-something middle-class women in Mumbai, the city with the highest internet use in India, talk about how they explore their sexuality online, how they present themselves however they want and how they deal with risky situations. Photo: “Jef Harris”:http://www.flickr.com/people/jefharris/

Full article at http://www.genderit.org/en/index.shtml?w=a&x=96458

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