Search for dissertations about: "women in prostitution"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 swedish dissertations containing the words women in prostitution.

2. 1. Policing Public Women : The Regulation of Prostitution in Stockholm 1812-1880

   Author : Yvonne Svanström; Ulla Wikander; Arne Jarrick; Johan Söderberg; Gunnel Karlsson; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; prostitution; Stockholm; public women; sexual contract; feminist theory; public space; public sphere; urbanity; medical profession; venereal disease; the police force; municipal authority; brothels; Carole Pateman; Jürgen Habermas; Economic history; Ekonomisk historia; ekonomisk historia; Economic History;

   Abstract : This dissertation studies the development of a regulation of prostitution in Stockholm during the period 1812-1880. The development of the regulation system is seen in the light of an analytical framework, developed from Carole Pateman's ideas on the sexual contract, and a feministic critique and elaboration of Jürgen Habermas's ideas on the public sphere. READ MORE

4. 2. Living Up to the Ideal of Respectability : Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Implications for Unmarried Migrant Workers, Single Mothers, and Women in Prostitution in Sri Lanka

   Author : Malin Jordal; Pia Olsson; Birgitta Essén; Ann Öhman; Jeanne Marecek; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : Sexual and reproductive health and rights; Free Trade Zone; gender relations; social navigation; unmarried women; migrant women workers; masculinity; single mothers; women in prostitution; qualitative interviews; Sri Lanka;

   Abstract : This thesis aims to gain a deeper understanding of relationships and sexuality of women at risk of social exclusion in Sri Lanka and the risk of violations of their sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) that they might face. Individual qualitative interviews with migrant women workers (n=18) and men (n=18) in the Free Trade Zone (FTZ), women facing single motherhood (n=28) and women formerly involved in prostitution (n=15) were conducted. READ MORE

5. 3. The multiplicities of prostitution experience : narratives about power and resistance

   Author : Anna Hulusjö; Malmö högskola; []
   Keywords : prostitution; power; resistance; personal narratives; genealogical approaches to narrative analysis;

   Abstract : This thesis is not primarily about ‘the rights and wrongs of prostitution’, at least not as they are conveyed in the prostitution debate, rather it aims to shift the focus from what prostitution is (work or violence, empowerment or exploitation), the topic of most prostitution debate, to how prostitution operates. That is, how power relations, knowledges, discourses and practices interconnect in making particular forms of prostitution and particular ways of making sense of prostitution experience possible. READ MORE

6. 4. The Politics of Legal Challenges to Pornography: Canada, Sweden, and the United States

   Author : Max Waltman; Jonas Tallberg; Catharine A. MacKinnon; Amy Mazur; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; pornography; prostitution; trafficking; gender-based violence; sex equality; intersectionality; freedom of speech; democracy; sexual abuse; comparative politics; civil rights; comparative law; equality law; violence against women; Canada; Sweden; United States; judicial politics; legislative politics; Political Science; statsvetenskap;

   Abstract : The dissertation analyzes obstacles and potential in democracies, specifically Canada, Sweden, and United States, to effectively address empirically documented harms of pornography. Legislative and judicial challenges under different democratic and legal frameworks are compared. READ MORE

7. 5. The Power of Being : A Study of Poverty, Fertility and Sexuality among the Kuria in Kenya and Tanzania

   Author : Ann-Britt Bernhardsdotter; William E. Arens; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ethnology; Kuria; Kenya and Tanzania; power; abuse of power; poverty; stratification mechanisms; sexuality; prostitution; woman marriage; justice; Etnologi; Ethnology; Etnologi; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

   Abstract : The study is concerned with power based on ‘being’, which is the thread running through the entire thesis. The extended family is the focal point and three themes, interrelated in Kuria society, are explored, namely, poverty, sexuality and fertility. READ MORE