constructions of prostitution, same-sex desire, and masculinity while simultaneously exposing oppressive power structures, legal invisibility, and economic injustice as well as the devaluation of queer affective relationships. Both Salvation Army and Much
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In Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 80–103 (24 total)
Migration, Empire, and Liminality
Sex Trade in the Borderlands of Europe
Tracie L. Wilson
prostitution and trafficking in women. Representations of gender were closely linked to images of nation 4 or, in this context, imperial authority. Therefore, anxieties that emerged regarding gender were connected to tensions stemming from ethnic and national
Introduction
Sexual encounters, migration and desire in post-socialist context(s)
Judy Whitehead and Hülya Demirdirek
This introduction explores the contested issue of 'prostitution' and the transnational flow of sex labor. Drawing on the experiences of female migrants described in this issue, we rethink the impact of socialist transition and examine larger themes such as the role of discursive practices in the establishment of national boundaries and in various forms of international intervention. We problematize the 'traffic in women' as well as the conceptualization of and dichotomies surrounding sex labor. Key points in the current debates on transnational sex work are highlighted and an approach is suggested which conceives of agency and structure not in oppositional terms, but as a continuum. Considering the structural conditions imposed by neoliberal policies, we argue that ethnographic accounts can help explain how transnational openings in the market for sex work are internalized as opportunities for young women in post-socialist contexts and how economic liberalization becomes accepted as 'natural' and 'inevitable'.
Emma Liggins
The social purity ‘crusade’ that gathered force after 1885 initiated a change both in ways of representing prostitution and in public opinion about ways of dealing with the sexually deviant woman. Since the 1860s the police had been granted the power under the Contagious Diseases Acts to apprehend women of doubtful virtue in the streets and insist that they be medically examined; if found to be diseased, they could then be detained in lock hospitals. Once these acts were repealed in 1885, prostitutes had greater freedom but were also kept under surveillance by philanthropists and the medical profession. A variety of discourses constructed the prostitute either as an innocent victim of male lust or as a ‘demon’ and ‘contagion of evil’. Judith Walkowitz has argued that such an ideological framework excluded the experience of women who drifted into this lifestyle temporarily, and provided ‘a restrictive and moralistic image’ of the fallen woman. Arguably, literary representations of prostitutes tended to flesh out the potentially restrictive images used in feminist, medical and periodical writing on the subject, though no form of discourse was immune to the strong influence of the language of purity used by the members of the National Vigilance Association (NVA) and its advocates.
Anna Lopes
This article provides a reassessment of the Berlin socialist women's movement of the mid-1890s as a historically significant attempt to establish a new kind of gender politics. The article shows how the movement provides an entry point to a broader, richer, more complicated feminist resistance than previously recognized. The historiographical processes that have narrowed interpretations of the movement are explored through a feminist-Foucauldian lens, which reveals the more collaborative activities and fluid alliances both among the women's groups and between them and a wider circle of social democratic men. A feminist-Foucauldian approach shifts attention to the movement's formation as an effect of power, highlighting its innovative organizational style, leadership, theorists, ideas, and resistance activities.
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Mar 2009
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 114–136 (23 total)
Twenty-Four Ways to Have Sex within the Law
Regulation and Moral Subjectivity in the Japanese Sex Industry
Gabriele Koch
defines the crime of prostitution as constituted by the commercial transaction of this one act, this guide also presents cisgender women in the sex industry with twenty-four ways to have sex within the law. Contemporary Japan is home to one of the world
In Journal of Legal Anthropology
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- 01 Dec 2021
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 30–49 (20 total)
“What They Had between Their Legs Was a Form of Cash”
Homosexuality, Male Prostitution, and Intergenerational Sex in 1950s Italy
Alessio Ponzio
Scientist Male–male prostitution was a pervasive and ordinary practice in post-Fascist Italy. Many young males (generally called “ marchette ” or “ marchettari ”) actively searched for clients or took advantage of unexpected encounters. 28 Parks, train
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Mar 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 62–78 (17 total)
A Gloomy Carnival of Freedom
Sex, Gender, and Emotions among Polish Displaced Person in the Aftermath of World War II
Katarzyna Nowak
war disrupted gender roles and therefore encroached on the very basis of Polish society—the patriarchal family—was fueled by the fear of homosexuality, prostitution, and other acts elites defined as depravity. I employ Mikhail Bakhtin's idea of
Tourism and the revolutionary new man
The specter of jineterismo in late 'special period' Cuba
Mette Louise Berg
Cuba's economic restructuring in the past decade has involved the country's reinsertion into the global tourist market. One of the undesired consequences of the new tourism based economy has been the phenomenon of jineterismo, literally horseback riding, but used to indicate hustling or prostitution. Prostitution is associated with the pre-revolution era and is therefore a sensitive issue for the socialist government. At the same time, sex tourism has become an important source of hard currency income. This article proposes to see jineterismo as a complex social phenomenon that brings issues of race, class, gender and nation into play, ultimately challenging the revolutionary narrative of social and racial equality.
Trafficking
What is that?
Elisabeth Schober
Kamala Kempadoo, Trafficking and prostitution reconsidered: New perspectives on migration, sex work, and human rights. London and Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2005, 247 pp., ISBN 1-59451-096-2 (paperback).
Kathryn Farr, Sex trafficking: The global market in women and children. New York: Worth Publishers, 2005, 262 pp., ISBN 0-71675-548-3 (paperback).