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Prostitution: A Violent Reality of Homelessness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
This policy paper summarizes findings on the connections between homelessness and ...
Erika Schoot, Samir Goswami
core  

Out of Sight, Out of Mind: New Zealand’s Latest Attempt at Prostitution Reform

open access: yes, 2014
The Prostitution Reform Act 2003 decriminalised all aspects of commercial sex work. It was believed this would reduce the presence of prostitutes on the streets and the associated harms, in particular neighbourhood nuisance, increased violence and ...
Talbot, Emma
core   +2 more sources

The History and Ideas of George Herbert Mead's Pragmatism and Its Relevance for Operational Research and Systems Thinkers

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT George Herbert Mead is an oft forgotten or ignored American philosopher who was one of the originators of pragmatism. Today, he is recognised as a creative thinker who has teased out knotty problems that others in the field had not realised were problems. Understanding Mead's analysis has been made difficult because he died prematurely without
Richard Ormerod
wiley   +1 more source

Komodifikasi Prostitusi Online sebagai Kritik Atas Globalisasi

open access: yesAsketik, 2020
Economic transactions titled sexuality have long been a commodity traded by the public since the colonial period. Prostitution is a classic problem that remains unresolved in Indonesia.
Indah Sari Rahmaini, Ahmad Zahid
doaj   +1 more source

The Policy and Politics of Improving Standards in the English Private Rented Sector

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The standard of existing homes in the English private rented sector (PRS) presents several challenges. As the sector has expanded, issues of inadequate renovation, maintenance and upgrading have assumed greater salience. Research has also highlighted enforcement challenges which make it more difficult to raise property standards and improve ...
Alice Earley, Alex Marsh, Ken Gibb
wiley   +1 more source

Undermined (Hegemonic) masculinity and subjective reconstruction within prostitution

open access: yesOñati Socio-Legal Series, 2018
In this article, we analyze how prostitution has been resignified as a scenario of subjective reconstruction for men in a social context of changes.
Beatriz Ranea Triviño
doaj   +1 more source

Romance Loans in Middle Dutch and Middle English: Retained or Lost? A Matter of Metre1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Romance words have been borrowed into all medieval West‐Germanic languages. Modern cognates show that the metrical patterns of loans can differ although the Germanic words remain constant: loan words Dutch kolónie, English cólony, German Koloníe compared with Germanic words Dutch wéduwe, English wídow, German Wítwe.
Johanneke Sytsema, Aditi Lahiri
wiley   +1 more source

Shameful or shameless? Anxieties about mothers and women's autonomy on the Central African Copperbelt, 1956–1964

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article deals with anxiety about and the shaming of modern urban mothers and wives on the mines of the late colonial Central African Copperbelt. Women's various labours and public presence lead to ambivalent depictions, such as the ‘careless mother’, that were part of a broader array of anxieties about women's autonomy on the mines ...
Stephanie Lämmert
wiley   +1 more source

The criminalization of clients as an instrument to fight against the prostitution system

open access: yesOñati Socio-Legal Series, 2018
Prostitution must necessarily be analyzed from a gender perspective, that is, bearing in mind the power relations involved. This approach requires putting the focus on the figure of man as a subject of prostitution and in the close relationship that ...
Octavio Salazar Benítez
doaj   +1 more source

‘Work locally but think globally’: The Alliance Against Women's Oppression and transnational multiracial grassroots activism in the 1980s

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the transnational history of the Alliance Against Women's Oppression (AAWO), a multiracial and Marxist US women's organisation founded in California in 1979. By focusing on the political connection between the AAWO, the so‐called ‘Third World’ and other international organisations such as the Women International ...
Bruno Walter Renato Toscano
wiley   +1 more source

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