Essays about: "prostitute"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the word prostitute.

1. 1. Embracing Precarity: Attending to Vulnerability and Negative Affects in E J-yong’s The Bacchus Lady

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

   Author : Joanne Lamming; [2022]
   Keywords : Cultural Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis attends to vulnerability and precarity within visual representation by analysing the negative affects bound to the experience of social exclusion. The study explores what it might mean to embrace and not overcome 'bad feelings' like shame and alienation using the visual example of an elderly prostitute–a ‘Bacchus Lady’– in E J-yong's 2016 film The Bacchus Lady. READ MORE

3. 2. Sexy 16-Year-Old Baby-Eater: Gendered, Sexualized, and Racialized Discourses in Exalted, Second Edition

   University essay from Institutionen för tillämpad informationsteknologi

   Author : Niels-Martin Ström Josefsen; [2021-11-26]
   Keywords : Roleplaying games; Exalted; feminist post-structural discourse analysis; representation; geek culture; race; gender; sexuality; Dungeons Dragons; discourses; White Wolf; misogyny; fantasy; genre subversion; social constructivism; media tropes; monstrous women; monstrous motherhood; infantilization; trans representation; sexualization; animalization;

   Abstract : Previous research finds roleplaying games, as well as the wider spectrum of geek culture that they exist within, to be defined by discourses favoring a white, heterosexual, cis-male viewpoint, drawing up and reproducing stereotypes and tropes that are inherently misogynist, homophobic, and racist. Heretofore, research into discourses of gender, sexuality, and race in roleplaying games has focused overwhelmingly on market leader Dungeons & Dragons (1971- ongoing), largely neglecting to scrutinize other well-established titles that may adhere to or break from the same tendencies. READ MORE

4. 3. Under the "guise of protection". The construction of sex trafficked female prostitutes under the German prostitution policy

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Author : Barbara Barth; [2020]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : Sex trafficking, as part of irregular migration, has caught worldwide attention in recent years and is affecting mainly women. This phenomenon is highly apparent in Germany where prostitution is legalised and is therefore often referred to as “brothel of Europe”. READ MORE

5. 4. Contested identity, contested struggle : A critical discourse analysis on victim-agent narratives regarding commercial sex in Thailand

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Emma Aler; [2018]
   Keywords : Agency; Victimisation; Agent-Victim Framework; Commercial Sex; Sex Work; Postcolonialism; Feminist Theory; Thailand;

   Abstract : This thesis examines how efforts regarding the commercial sex industry in Thailand can be positioned in relation to an agent-victim framework. In the context of the expanding sex industry in Thailand, it becomes relevant to look at how efforts regarding it risks reproducing notions of ‘the prostitute’ as the victimised Other, and thus reinforcing neo-colonialism. READ MORE

6. 5. Prostitute or Artist? : Stereotype and Authenticity in Arthur Golden’s Memoirs of a Geisha

   University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärande

   Author : Prusha Majid; [2014]
   Keywords : Geisha;

   Abstract : This essay will explore the writer Arthur Golden’s attitude towards the figure of the geisha in the novel Memoirs of a Geisha. Does he present a positive view of a geisha or is his attitude critical? In addition, I will attempt to answer the question of whether the novel challenges or reinforces the received stereotypes about the geisha and their unique way of life. READ MORE