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The sex worker fantasized in men's literature, represented as object, is now more and more in first-person narratives written by people having been in the sex trade, thus creating a break with fixed, stereotypical representations. The author analyzes the novels Putain (2001) by Nelly Arcan, Pute de rue, by Roxane Nadeau (2003), and Bordel, by Camille Fortin (2008) in view of displaying the character's agency.
Keywords: littérature, représentation, prostitution, agentivité sexuelle, subjectivité
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The European Court of Human Rights has interpreted Article 4 of the European Convention on Human Rights and recognized a violation of it for some 15 years. In particular, it has extended the material scope of this provision to include trafficking in human beings. However, it has not, however, offered a clear reading of the different situations included in this wording, namely slavery, servitude, forced labour and trafficking in human beings. The Grand Chamber judgment delivered on 25 June 2020 has certainly offered several clarifications but has not completely dispelled the confusion that reigns among the issues mentioned. This contribution provides an overview of the case law on the violation of Article 4 and a first look at the recent findings of the Grand Chamber.
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The play La paix des femmes by Véronique Côté, presented at the Théâtre La Bordée in Quebec from September 13 to October 8, 2022, then webcast for three months, problematizes the commodification of women's bodies. To understand this multifaceted phenomenon, it is important to first expose the social context which gave rise to the creation of the play, because it already establishes its relevance. I will then examine the polemical and feminist nature of its content. Then I will continue the thread downstream to study the imprints left by the dramatic text and especially its stage production by highlighting the different nature of these imprints and their varied origins. Finally, I will compare Côté's play to its cultural background in order to show how it stands out.
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The study focuses on the roles, interactions, and resource exchange process at the core of a prostitution network. The analysis illustrates how pimps and prostitutes contribute in different ways to a common network. Such an exchange system becomes the basis for understanding the structure of order and control within the network. This approach allows us to examine how prostitutes are not mere subordinates to pimps and, in many ways, occupy key positions and roles of privilege within the overall network. Thus, whereas the traditional focus on pimp and prostitute networks has maintained that pimps generally have complete control over prostitutes, our study demonstrates how prostitutes may control how others control them. The data for this study is based on electronic surveillance transcripts that were intercepted during a law-enforcement investigation that targeted the network under analysis. After demonstrating how the network was structured and how both pimps and prostitutes maintained key positions therein, a conversational analysis of all relevant telephone calls that were intercepted over a two-year period is pursued. Results demonstrate that the roles that prostitutes occupy in the network and the resources that they contribute make them vital participants in the overall structure of order. Analysis of such positions, roles, and resource sharing reveal the competitive environment that prostitutes create against one another and their indispensable value to the network beyond the evident servicing of clients. Such findings and insights are relevant for sex and human trafficking settings as well as general contexts of criminal networking.
Keywords: Proxénète, prostitution, réseau criminel, analyse de réseaux, analyse des conversations, Pimp, prostitution, criminal networks, social network analysis, conversation analysis, Proxeneta, prostitución, red criminal, análisis de redes, análisis de conversaciones
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Starting from the point of departure that sex work is a form of service sector labour, this article explores how sex workers, their own understanding of themselves as workers and consumers notwithsanding, are marginalized in the economic sphere. The article draws attention to the implications of the barriers to their income- generating activities (whether they decide to work on the street or not). The article also examines workers resistance and the avoidance strategies they employ attending in particular to how they challenge their marginalization as workers and consumers (obtaining credit cards, mortgages, apartment rentals, etc.). In conclusion, we examine the impact of the laws on the careers of these women noting that while the Criminal Code provisions have a significant impact there are numerous other laws that undermine their ability to define themselves as workers in their own right.
Keywords: Travail du sexe, vie économique, marginalisation, résistance, stratégies d'évitement, prostitution, Sex worker, economic life, marginalization, resistance, avoidance strategies, prostitution, Trabajo sexual, vida económica, marginalización, resistencia, prostitución
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Cette étude avait pour objectif d’évaluer la tolérance envers la prostitution auprès d’une population d’étudiants universitaires âgée de 18 ans et plus et ayant un statut étudiant dans une université au Québec. Cette étude s’est également intéressée à connaître les déterminants susceptibles d’influencer la tolérance en évaluant la contribution de chacun d’entre eux sur cette tolérance. En plus de fournir un portrait général sur l’ensemble des variables auprès de cette population, cette étude est la première à évaluer à la fois les attitudes des individus à l’égard des prostitué(e)s et de la prostitution. Au total, 455 étudiants provenant de différentes universités du Québec ont participé à l’étude et ont ainsi complété le questionnaire en ligne. Les résultats de la présente étude indiquent que 65,7 % …
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