L’objectif de cette mini-thèse est d’étudier la vie de la femme dans Assèze l’Africaine de Calixthe Beyala. Dans ce roman, Beyala présente le tableau africain d’après les indépendances à travers les peines, les illusions et l’espoir de différents personnages féminins. Le lecteur…
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Living Openly and Notoriously explores the intersection of federal immigration control and state efforts to control women’s sexuality in the United States. To interrogate, surveil, detain, and deport immigrant women for prostitution, officials at New York’s Ellis Island, San Fra…
This study examines the relationship between public sexual activity and the transformation of Paris during the Second Empire (1852-1870) and early Third Republic (1870-1940). It argues that prostitutes and male homosexuals were central to the city's everyday life. Urban administ…
This dissertation compares anti-vice organizations that fought forced prostitution, or “white slavery,” during the early twentieth-century in the United States. This research uses archival methods and materials to make comparisons among anti-vice crusades in three cities: New Yo…
Contemporary scholars generally translate the Hebrew stem znh as “prostitute” or “cultic prostitute” and understand it as a metaphor for Israel's alleged apostasy. However prostitution in the Biblical texts is neither punished nor censured making this a weak metaphor for prophet…
This text demonstrates that my work on young people who are exploited through prostitution and young people involved in problematic drug use in Britain at the end ofthe twentieth and beginning ofthe twenty-first century constitutes a significant contribution to advancing our kno…
The purpose of this research was to address the issue of trafficking for sexual exploitation by using macro-quantitative analysis to identify the characteristics of source and destination countries, and by studying the micro-level context in which human trafficking emerges. In t…
This dissertation examines the role of Euro-American women in the formation of the U.S.-Mexico border in the early twentieth century. I argue that American prostitutes and reformers figured centrally in the establishment of a fortified international boundary and in the making of…
Sperling Enterprises conducted a survey for Money Magazine in January, 2004 which in part examined one hundred large, medium and small metropolitan areas in the United States to determine which metropolitan areas were the most and least stressful places to reside. The Harrisburg…
Since 1985, our laboratory has been conducting a prospective study of a cohort of registered female sex workers (FSW) in Dakar, Senegal. Initial surveys of the different HIV-1 subtypes circulating in the cohort revealed that, while a majority of the women were infected with the …
Youth runaways shape cosmopolitan identities, the city, and global flows in Tehran, Iran. How female runaway youth in the Iranian capital use the very classificatory markers that have differentiated them as either mischievous adolescents (rebels), or more frequently, as the embo…
In this project, I explore the pícara's representation as both prostitute and woman of hybrid origins. I argue that the pícara's representation as a racialized prostitute is designed to generate a distorted mirror image of those aspects of society that do not fit within the idea…
The influence of traditional Islamic values on Turkish policy making has resulted in further marginalization, stigmatization, and socially disparate outcomes for those who do not fit the dominant hetero-normative gender norms and sexual identities. A macro level analysis of the …
Drawing upon the broad historical schema of the "civilizing process," derived from the work of historians of the long-term formation of European cultures and collective mentalites, this dissertation examines connections between the rise and political economy of the modern Egypti…
Nigerian police are not trusted by the population they swore to protect because they often assault, manipulate, exploit, and humiliate citizens as a form of intimidation to achieve a personal gain, especially from those who are involved in illegal activities like prostitution. T…
This study contributes to the on going feminist debate on prostitution. It focuses on the way in which sex-work allows sexual and economic autonomy under some political and economic conditions, as well as on how the ideology of women's subordination affects the cultural and indi…
Prostitution and its place in society of long been debated by participants across the spectrum. The dominant and controlling voice in the debate has always been from those outside the sex industry including activists, governments, and legal systems. This was especially true in t…
Chronic stressors and complex trauma impact the neurobiological development of children, subsequently affecting the utilization of executive functioning. These skills are instrumental in the implementation of self-regulatory learning strategies necessary for academic success. Th…
Prostitucijom se prevashodno bave žene zbog čega se često naziva i „ženskom profesijom”. U Republici Srbiji zastupljen je prohibicionistički model regulisanja prostitucije. Prema odredbi čl. 16. st. 1. Zakona o javnom redu i miru Republike Srbije, lica koja se odaju prostituciji…