Essays about: "abolitionism"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the word abolitionism.

1. 1. From Bondage to Advocacy : Gender, Double Consciousness and Abolitionist Persuasion in Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.

   University essay from Karlstads universitet

   Author : Hanna Engström; [2024]
   Keywords : Harriet Jacobs; Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl; slave narrative; gender; double consciousness; abolitionism;

   Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to explore how the interplay between gender and double consciousness is used as a rhetorical device in Harriet Jacobs’ autobiographical narrative “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” (1861). Through a feminist theoretical lens and the concept of double consciousness I provide examples from the text illustrating Jacobs’ strategic use of different narrative techniques to convey her abolitionist message. READ MORE

3. 2. Sex Workers Are the Experts of Their Own Experiences

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter

   Author : Maria Giulia Taccari; [2022]
   Keywords : Sexköpslagen; Sex Workers; Sex Work; Prostitution; Sweden; Sex Purchase Act; Swedish Model; Neo-Abolitionism; Human Rights; Sex Workers Rights; Participatory Action Research; Thematic Analysis.; Law and Political Science; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : In this thesis, a participatory approach was used to privilege the opinions of sex workers regarding the effects of the Swedish prostitution policy. Since 1999, Sweden has criminalized only the purchase of sex, thus, this research studied the impact on sex workers, who are seen as victims by the law. READ MORE

4. 3. The ethical price for dairy

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Animal Environment and Health

   Author : Katrin Bauer; [2021]
   Keywords : animal ethics; dairy industry; Europe;

   Abstract : In the 21st century people in modern society within Europe are used to go to a supermarket to buy groceries of daily need. Everything is easily available and affordable and barely anyone is aware of the production of their consumed goods, their origin and unpleasant side effects. READ MORE

5. 4. Naming Injustice, Reimagining Justice: How Victim-Survivors of Sexual Violence in Portugal Perceive Criminal Justice and its Alternatives

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionen

   Author : Juliana Rafaela Martins Vasconcelos Senra; [2021]
   Keywords : Sexual Violence; Restorative Justice; Criminal Justice; Gender-based Violence; Access to Justice; Bourdieu; Portugal.; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis addresses the sexual violence justice gap in Portugal descriptively by questioning how victim-survivors of these crimes experience and/or perceive criminal justice, including those that have resorted to formal law and those that haven’t Normatively, it reflects on the justice needs of victim-survivors of sexual violence and connects these needs to the restorative justice movement - an umbrella term for non-carceral responses to sexual violence, including inputs from feminism, abolitionism and social harm theory. It thus aims to explore innovative survivor-centered justice models and draft policy recommendations specific to the Portuguese context. READ MORE

6. 5. Spatial Politics and Sex Work : To what extent do differing frames of meaning in national debates on sex work result in spatial exclusion in Sweden and the Netherlands?

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Holly Campbell; [2019]
   Keywords : sex work; space; spatial exclusion; urban environment; visibility;

   Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to explore the relationship between spatial politics and sex work in order to demonstrate how spatial exclusion can be used to consolidate power imbalances in the public sphere. To achieve this, this thesis explores and compares the situations between two countries with opposing approaches to sex work – abolitionism in Sweden and decriminalisation in the Netherlands. READ MORE