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Taboo transactions: an initial diachronic approach to translation and sex work

Translation Matters, 2022
Translation is an ever-evolving form of transmission that carries with it ideas, hopes, politics, poetics, and desires. Building upon Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s assertion that “translation is the most intimate form of reading,” the present paper explorestranslation as a form of labor that can be described as intimate through metaphor and history ...
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Revisiting the economics of transactional sex: evidence from Tanzania [PDF]

Review of African Political Economy, 2015
Transactional sex has been identified as one of the key structural drivers of the HIV epidemic. Mainstream economic analyses of this practice primarily conceptualise transactional sex in the language of rational choice, with the focus on behavioural decisions that women make over whether to engage in transactional interactions (or not). However, whilst
Deane, Kevin D, Wamoyi, Joyce
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Don't Worry About Her; Intersectionality, and the Role of Systems and Structures in the Embodied Experiences of Young Women's Use of Violence

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Systems and structures designed to protect and support young people, specifically (in this paper) young women, are ironically the same systems that maintain gender disparity. Consequently, this has influenced the embodied identities of young women who experience and use violence. Such systemic and structural intersectionality has impacted upon
Louise Rak, Tamara Blakemore, Elsie Randall, Meaghan Katrak Harris   +3 more
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Sexual and addictive risk behaviors and sexually transmitted infections in illegal gold miners in French Guiana: A multicenter observational study

PLoS ONE, 2022
Objectives Common representations of the world of gold mining–especially illegal–are usually negative: the activity conjures up images of drug trafficking, human exploitation, the sex trade, environmental destruction, and infectious diseases, in ...
Louise Mutricy-Hureau, Amandine Pisoni, Martha Suarez-Mutis, Amanda Figueira da Silva, Yann Lambert, Pauline Mespoulhe, Audrey Godin, Marie-Claire Parriault, Astrid Van Melle, Emilie Mosnier, Mélanie Gaillet, Céline Michaud, Roxane Schaub, Muriel Galindo, Antoine Adenis, Mathieu Nacher, Stephen Vreden, Edouard Tuaillon, Maylis Douine   +18 more
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National Disability Insurance Scheme and Quality of Life Among Carers of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder in Australia: A Thematic Analysis

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder in Australia have increased considerably in recent years. The current study investigated how the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) impacts quality of life (QoL) among carers of children with autism spectrum disorder.
Jesse Gerhard, Sharon L. Grant
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Intersecting motivations for leaving abusive relationships, substance abuse, and transactional sex among HIV high-risk women

Journal of the Georgia Public Health Association, 2016
Background: Women bear a significant burden of the HIV epidemic in the United States. Women classified as ‘HIV high-risk’ often bring co-existing histories of intimate partner violence (IPV), drug use, and transactional sex.
Naomi David, Sophia Hussen, Dawn Comeau, Ameeta Kalokhe   +3 more
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Transactional sex among young people in Switzerland: a cross-sectional study

Sexual Health, 2021
Background The aim of this research was to determine the prevalence and characteristics of youths having ever exchanged sex and to assess if there were differences depending on whether they had done it once or several times.
Joan-Carles Surís, Sophie Stadelmann, Diane Auderset, Yara Barrense-Dias   +3 more
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Key vulnerabilities to HIV among men who have sex with men in Ghana [PDF]

, 2016
In Ghana, prevalence of HIV among MSM is significantly higher than that of the general population. Substance use and transactional sex in the urban settings of Ghana have been identified as risk behaviors that exacerbate chances of transmission for this ...
Segal, Tami
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Reciprocal Associations Between Parental Anxiety/Depression and Emotional/Behavioral Difficulties in Autistic Children Following Their Diagnosis

Autism Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Emotional and behavioral difficulties (EBD) are common in autistic children, while anxiety and depressive symptoms (ADS) are prevalent in their parents. However, the bidirectional relationship between the parents' and children's symptoms remains unclear, especially in the years following the child's autism diagnosis.
Maëva Monnier, Hugo Peyre, Marianne Peries, Valentin Simoncic, Guillaume Nicolet, Cécile Michelon, Yashvin Seetahul, Amaria Baghdadli, on behalf of the Elena Study Group   +8 more
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Community perspectives on the extent to which transactional sex is viewed as sexual exploitation in Central Uganda

BMC International Health and Human Rights, 2020
Background Definitions of child sexual exploitation vary. Sexual exploitation violates children’s rights and exposes them to mental and physical harm. There exist differences in views of behaviour that is considered exploitative, including transactional ...
N. Kyegombe, R. Meiksin, S. Namakula, J. Mulindwa, R. Muhumuza, J. Wamoyi, L. Heise, A. M. Buller   +7 more
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