Essays about: "prostitution"

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  1. 16. “I don’t ask myself that question. Maybe because I don’t want to know the answer.” A Qualitative Study on Sugar Daters’ Cognitive Dissonance

    University essay from Örebro universitet/Institutionen för juridik, psykologi och socialt arbete

    Author : Paulina Fröling; Gabriella Helander; [2021]
    Keywords : Cognitive dissonance; Sugar dating; Social psychology; Prostitution; Thematic analysis; Sweden;

    Abstract : Cognitive dissonance refers to a state of internal conflict, arising when two or more cognitions are inconsistent with each other. The state brings about an urge to reach consonance - and to do so, different reduction strategies can be utilized. READ MORE

  3. 17. Lost at the intersections: a postcolonial approach to the Swedish Sex Purchase Act

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Social Studies of Gender; Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Daniela Basto da Silva; [2020]
    Keywords : Sweden Sex Purchase Act; prostitution; sex workers; postcolonialism; intersectionality; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This study focuses on the Swedish Sex Purchase Act and their claims of help and support to prostitutes, as outlined by two propositions: Kvinnofrid (proposition 1997/98:55) and in the 10-year evaluation of the Act (SOU 2010:49). It investigates these claims through an ethnography of law method and data collected from fieldwork is interpreted and reflected through the conceptual framework of postcolonial feminist legal theory and intersectionality. READ MORE

  4. 18. 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]
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    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. 19. The World’s oldest Profession does Not have a Place in Modern Feminist society – a qualitative analysis of Talita and KOK e.V.’s described work for trafficking and prostitution victims

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

    Author : Thania Persson; [2020]
    Keywords : Human trafficking; prostitution; undocumented migrants; feminism;

    Abstract : The aim of this study is to compare organisations that help victims from human trafficking and prostitution with a focus on undocumented migrants. Germany is one of the chosen countries in this study because of the legalised and regulated prostitution policy and will be compared with Sweden with the contrasting policy in which sex purchase is criminalised but not to sell sex. READ MORE

  6. 20. Media discourse of legalization of prostitution in Ukraine: an intersectional analysis

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Social Studies of Gender

    Author : Kateryna Krasnikova; [2020]
    Keywords : prostitution; legalization; media discourse; intersectional analysis; Ukraine; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The intersectional analysis was applied in a sociological study on the arguments of the legalization of prostitution in Ukraine and the characteristics of the main actors of media discourse. The theoretical rationale for the discourse on the phenomenon of prostitution was the application of Margaret Archer's structural-activity approach and the concept of intersectionality, to describe and explain the connection between the subject-structure-culture. READ MORE