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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"sex trade"”.
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Virgin Territory: Theology, Purity, and the Rise of the Global Sex Trade
<p>Sex sells. A lot. But who exactly is on the market? </p><p>What kinds of bodies are calibrated for traffic and consumption, and how exactly do they get there? When it comes to “sex” trafficking—which comprises a minority percentage of human trafficking, yet dominates the moral imagination as an …
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Compounding Prejudice? Investigating Canadian Mock Juror Perceptions of Victim Race and Work in the Sex Trade
Indigenous women and sex workers experience high rates of violence in Canada and are often blamed for their victimization. This jury simulation examined how victim race (Indigenous, White) and work in the sex trade (sex worker, non-sex worker) affected mock juror verdicts in a first-degree murder …
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"We Have Never Allowed Such A Thing Here...": Social Responses to Saskatchewan's Early Sex Trade, 1880 to 1920
… the title suggests, Saskatchewan had a booming sex trade in its early years. The area attracted hundreds of women sex workers before Saskatchewan had even become a province in 1905. They were drawn to the area by the demands of bachelors who dominated Canada's prairie west. According to …
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The Lute In Seventeenth-Century Dutch Brothels: A Study of Selected Genre Paintings
… the lute as an important aspect of the sex trade in the Low Countries, but also provide clues about speelhuizen, the underground "music halls where whores plied openly."</p> <p>The significance of these representations has not been well understood. Wayne Franits, for example, in his …
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You Take the Good and Leave the Rest Behind: Northern Thai Adolescent Girls and Their Narratives of Future Possibilities
… on how local notions of female identity, sexuality, family, education and the sex trade are negotiated by the younger generation on a daily basis I found that the future possibilities perceived by these girls are in constant dialogue with global flows of labor, images, and ideas into the …
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Sex and Gasoline: Selling Sex in Twentieth Century America
… technological changes of the time. This includes sexual health in the United States. The sex trade, print or film or actual sex worker, has influenced many aspects of American life from technology, advertising, fashion and business models. The adult industry is made up of more than pay-per-view …
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New Conflict, Old Conundrum: Venereal Disease Control and Education in World War Two Canada
… wholly supplant morality-based understandings of sexually transmitted infections. While effective chemotherapy and, later, antibiotics made the fight against venereal disease easier, for many of Canada’s physicians, educators, and military officials it remained essential to remind Canadians that …
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Subjugated Bodies, Normalized Subjects: Representations Of Power In The Panamanian Literature Of Roberto Díaz Herrera, Rose Marie Tapia And Mauro Zúñiga Araúz
… operates through globalization and the sex trade market. Chapter five uses Tapia's "Mujeres en fuga" to show globalization and the global market--through casinos and shopping malls--manipulating society, and contributing to Panama's socio-economic fragmentation. In addition to bringing …
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Navigating the criminalisation-decriminalisation dilemma in sex work: an analysis of its affects on human rights and proposals for their safeguard
… examine how certain legal systems deal with both sex workers and those involved in the sex trade. It will demonstrate that several legal systems have failed to achieve their intended goals of protecting the rights of ‘everyone' and to establish a method to effectively address sex work. The ongoing …
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Public Opinion, Press Coverage and the Pempho Banda Case: Contesting Sex Work Criminalization in Malawi's Developing Tourism Sector
… debate over the social and legal status of sex workers in the southern African country. It also brought to light that efforts to stimulate tourism had inadvertently boosted the country's sex work industry. To move away from a reliance on agriculture and bolster socio-economic growth and its …
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Lost in Space No Longer: The Visionary Union of 'The Wire'
… the seemingly “disconnected” union men, foreign sex worker women, and African-American drug traders and crosses constructed boundaries of race, gender, sexuality, and geography to evoke the possibility of a transnational working class. <em>The Wire’s </em>serialized narrative trespasses the …