What is Re-Presentation

Gender, as a terminology of political hiatus, is often restricted within the binarized system of ethical and unethical parameters. The marginal lives as visualized and presented within the phallogcentric Indian society is often misrepresented, which eventually results in the downward flow of powered discourses and objectified perception. Gender, as Butler described, is ‘fluid,' but the social dimension encloses such fluidity inside the horizon of patriarchal visibilities. Prostitution is a professional realm which involves selling of flesh and is commonly identified with sex-workers and gigolo. Prostitution has existed since the record of history began. Henceforth, this paper would use queer-post-structuralist-feminist theory with an empirical and observational methodology to examine Pros-institution (prostitution) under the broad domains-the historical existence and lineage of prostitutes in India before and after the advent of British, re-read the little literature on sex-work.