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The House Prostitute: A Case Study
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Prostitute as sex worker : feminist theories contextualized
Many feminist approaches to prostitution exist, all with the ultimate goal of eliminating gender inequality as a framework for their theories. Using data on street prostitution in Montreal and San Francisco collected by Frances Shaver and Martin Weinberg, the real lived experiences of sex workers …
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THE GENEALOGY OF THE PROSTITUTE: DEFINING AND DISCIPLINING PROSTITUTION THROUGH JOURNALISM IN VICTORIAN ENGLAND, 1809-1886
… an exploration into the changing definition of a prostitute during the nineteenth century in Britain and the actions taken in response to that changing definition. I argue that different definitions of "prostitute" that emerge during this time correspond to the various means of control, …
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La prostitucion y el deseo masculino en El ano que trafique con mujeres de Antonio Salas
… particularly of human trafficking. I analyze the prostitute’s characteristic as being “out of the norm” of the female prostitute by means of the theory of abjection. Applying the psychoanalytical approach of the study of the oedipal complex in relation to male behaviour in love, particularly as …
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Reading prostitution in American fiction, 1893-1917
… the harsh conditions which caused many women to prostitute themselves for survival. Contemporary critical interpretations of novels addressed in this dissertation began before major shifts in women's roles in the workplace, before trends towards family planning, before women could respectably …
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Maisons de presse, Maisons de passe: Prostitution in the Parisian Literary Market, 1830 - 1923
Nineteenth-century French novels are replete with prostitutes. These fictionalized versions of Paris’ real population of venal women and men usually possess an exceptional spirit; yet over the course of the narrative, they are consistently removed from public circulation in society. Literary …
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The social organisation of sex work : implications for female prostitutes' health and safety
… Existing literature focuses on the risks that prostitutes pose to society rather than the occupational risks they face. Most of this work has been conducted with women who work on the streets, although estimates suggest that indoor prostitution (saunas and private flats) in particular is a …
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Implikasi penutupan lokalisasi terhadap pembentukan keluarga sakinah: Studi di Desa Kaliwungu Kecamatan Ngunut Kabupaten Tulungagung
… side, its existence can manage the operation of prostitutes in the street, as well as government can control the health insurance of prostitute workers. On the other side, prostitution is prohibited by norm of both religion and nation with the consequence of punishment for the doers. So, when …
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Wild woman: representations of female 'deviance' in modern and contemporary Italian fiction
… day, I consider the figures of the ugly woman, prostitute and female terrorist in selected texts by nine Italian writers in order to map the delineation of such characters over time. Pivotal to my argument is the recognition that such characters pose a challenge to conventional norms, resulting …
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Prostitution chez Calixthe Beyala: race, corps, regard
… and independent African woman, who is forced to prostitute herself. Crucial elements in Calixthe Beyala’s writing of the Parisian world of prostitution are the dynamics of race, gender and history between the black/ African female and the white/ French male. Using Jean Baudrillard’s idea of …
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Prostitution chez Calixthe Beyala: race, corps, regard
… and independent African woman, who is forced to prostitute herself. Crucial elements in Calixthe Beyala’s writing of the Parisian world of prostitution are the dynamics of race, gender and history between the black/ African female and the white/ French male. Using Jean Baudrillard’s idea of …
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Unmasked : towards a restoration discourse of female libertinism
… contrasting identities of the libertine and the prostitute is also considered. In the first three chapters, the literary analysis is framed by brief portraits of historical libertine women. In the latter part of the thesis, consideration is given to the significance of a libertine identity as a …
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A Poetic Poioumenon: Coterie and Ekphrasis in David Lehman's "The Breeders' Cup"
… </em>through ekphrasis, and the painting of a prostitute becomes a patron saint of parody for postmodern poetics. The poem introduces lust as a metaphor for creative energy whose productive potential inspires meaningful works of art. The speaker self-consciously references lust as creative …
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Images of Jenny Lind and the Construction of Identity for the Nineteenth-Century Female Performer
… available and often had the reputation of prostitute. Lind achieved a level of success that made her one of the most famous women of the mid-nineteenth-century. She was known not only for her talent as a performer but also for her morality and piety. Examining the Lind images in the context …
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Risky business : the negotiation and management of work-related risk by patient-attendants and prostitutes
… the hospital patient-attendant and the street prostitute. The research question is twofold: what elements of service work give rise to work-related risk, and what conditions impact upon the negotiation and management of occupational hazards. The rationale for comparing these two occupations …
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Racializing white residues: seditious Anglo-Indians and others
… include, among others, colonial Anglo-Indian ‘prostitute’ Amelia Horne, Anglo-Indian anti-racism activist Cedric Dover, Bengali novelist Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, diasporic English writer Aubrey Menen, Indian cartoonist Mario Miranda, Bengali film director Satyajit Ray, Anglo-Indian politician …
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FEMALE FLÂNERIE BETWEEN MODERNITY AND POSTMODERNITY. THE CASES OF DOROTHY RICHARDSON’S PILGRIMAGE AND RÉGINE ROBIN’S MÉGAPOLIS. LES DERNIERS PAS DU FLÂNEUR
… arguments focus on the image of the flâneuse as prostitute or shopper, my thesis proposes the image of the middle-class female intellectual ■. (ethnographer, artist, sociologist) as a more fitting counterpart to the flâneur. Miriam Henderson, the protagonist in Dorothy Richardson’s series …
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Problems of representation and representativeness in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's fiction
… the grain' of the later novels, I iocate in the prostitute or 'fallen woman' a figure which unsettles the economy of gender difference constituted by Ngugi's patriarchal master-narrative, and which therefore disrupts Ngugi' s androcentric historiography. Bibliography: pages 208-213.
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Ignited Curiosity and Failed Dreams: Nineteenth-Century Masculine Fears of Females in Guy de Maupassant's 'Une Aventure Parisienne'and 'Le Signe'
… with her interest in imitating the gesture of a prostitute she notices across the street. When faced with a male client she frantically gives in to what she has offered. Needing to reaffirm her identity as an "honnête femme," she solicits advice from her friend on what to do if the client …
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