Essays about: "Prostitution Law"

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  1. 16. Lost Women or Loose Women? Examining Prostitution Policy-Practice Divide in the Lithuanian Legal System

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Ieva Varkojyte; [2016]
    Keywords : Prostitution; Sexuality; Lithuania; Lithuanian Legal System; Law; Feminism; Trafficking in Women; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This work examines prostitution practice-policy divide in Lithuanian legal system. Prostitution law in Lithuania was amended in 2005 by stipulating legal liability not only for sex selling but also for sex purchase. This shows Lithuania’s step towards more abolitionistic view concerning prostitution. READ MORE

  3. 17. Conflicting Ideas of Justice. An Analysis of the Swedish Prostitution Policy Debate

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Frida Pettersson Darj; [2016]
    Keywords : Prostitution; Policy; Sweden; Justice; Ideal Type Analysis; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : The Swedish prostitution policy that prohibits the purchase of sexual services has been the subject of considerable debate. Internationally, prostitution is predominantly criminalized due to religious reasons. This makes the Swedish policy, motivated by feminist arguments on women’s rights, unique. READ MORE

  4. 18. Whore, mother, citizen? : The need for a re-definition of the citizenship of sex workers in Argentina

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Latinamerikainstitutet

    Author : Suvi Lensu; [2015]
    Keywords : Argentina; female sex work; female prostitution; Agamben; sexual citizenship; feminist theory; queer theory; Argentina; trabajo sexual femenino; prostitución femenina; Agamben; ciudadanía sexual; teoría feminista; teoría queer;

    Abstract : In the subject of prostitution there has been a growing trend towards a sex work discourse, where the selling of sex and sexual services is regarded as a form of emotional and erotic labor. The discourse emerged in response to the self-organization of sex workers into labor unions and citizenship rights groups. READ MORE

  5. 19. Nipa Huts with High Speed Internet: Commercial Exploitation of Children in the 21st Century. A Qualitative investigation of Webcam Child Prostitution in the Philippines

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

    Author : Salla Aurén; Dennis Fris Kuhlmann; [2015]
    Keywords : Webcam Child Prostitution; Webcam Child Sex Tourism; child sexual abuse; commercial sexual abuse of children; prostitution; the Philippines; incest; accumulation by dispossession; child welfare; poverty; child pornography; social media; migration; unemployment; techniques of neutralisation.; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the emerging issue of Webcam Child Prostitution (WCP) that has so far only been observed in the Philippines. Utilising a qualitative approach, the authors conducted a series of interviews with law enforcement and civil society, as well as survivors of the crime and two focus groups in a low-income neighbourhood in Manila. READ MORE

  6. 20. "When Will Women be Human?" : a Critical Discourse Analysis of the portrayal of prostitution in the World Conferences on Women

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Historia

    Author : Elisabeth Lindström; [2015]
    Keywords : Pornography; Universal Declaration of Human Rights; International Law; Women; Prostitution; Feminism; Traffic in Person; Critical Discourse Analysis; Human rights; History and Archaeology;

    Abstract : Prostitution is a disputed concept, not in the way that it is not defined, for it is, but not in the sense that would be to many viewed as ethical as well as moral values of the modern society. From the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to the Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Person and the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Oth-ers to the Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Wom-en, prostitution in itself is not defined and not established properly as an issue of old and still existing structures. READ MORE