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Between the years 1920 and 1930 in France, several women reporters—namely, Maryse Choisy, Magdeleine Paz, Marise Querlin, Luc Valti and Adrienne Verdière Le Peletier—seized on the subject of prostitution. This article examines these investigations in order to examine women's perception of both prostitution and the figure of the prostitute. It sheds light on the ambivalences of reporting, which hesitated between the renewal of stereotypes based on prostitution in the popular imagination and inherited from social surveys and 19th century literature, and the creation of a new vision of the problem. The figure of the prostitute is at the heart of this tension: at once victim and criminal, pure and impure, ordinary and marginalized, she marks the reportage with her voice and the adventures of her body, while offering the woman reporter a social and reflexive symbol. In fact, the prostitute allows the reporter to not only denounce certain more general aspects of women's condition during the inter-war period, involving inequities of class and gender, but to comment as well on the somewhat marginal condition shared by both the public woman and the reporter, namely, a mobile identity outside the norm.
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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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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 story of the prostitute Rahab who comes to the rescue of two Israeli spies by hiding them, and confesses her faith in the victory of YHWH over Jericho, is worthy of attention. Yet this little account seems, at first sight, wrong in its place in the book of Joshua. Located at the beginning of the conquest, it interrupts the triumphant march of Joshua and the sons of Israel by an episode to say the least burlesque. What is the function of this episode ? What does it bring to the plot of the story, to the characterization of the main characters, and to the theology of the book of Joshua ? This article proposes to reread the history of Rahab from a primarily synchronic perspective, trying to answer these questions.
Keywords: Rahab, Josué, espions, prostituée, Cananéenne, confession de foi, alliance
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This article examines the figure of the sex worker as represented in Quebec's tabloid press in the years 1942 to 1960. It focuses on two successive periods in the history of Quebec print culture: first, the years 1942-1947, represented by the periodical Police Journal, which, part newspaper and part magazine, proposed a reformist examination of Quebec morality through sensationalist reporting on crime and vice; second, the yellow journalism of the 1950s, which exploited sex trade crimes for sensationalist purposes. During the transition between the two periods and the two print entities, the figure of the city prostitute evolved: she was first the symbol of a social hygiene problem and next a criminal figure, creating narratives of individual action and agency.
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My article is a reading of Genga-Idowu's Lady in Chains with an intention to show how she attempts to rewrite the presentation of the prostitute figure in a Kenyan urban space by figuring prostitution as an institution that is useful in questioning and revising economic power relations between men and women. Genga-Idowu shows that women can reliably accumulate income from prostitution and emancipate themselves from the economic disadvantages of postcolonial Kenya. I examine specific traits of the prostitute figure and the spaces within the city that this writer utilizes to revise and disavow Kenyan male writers and socio-cultural conception of the prostitute. Thus prostitution will be projected as a business and a potential alternative road that makes women economically powerful and frees them from other kinds of disadvantages that characterize their lives.