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Abstract International studies on alcohol consumption call for a gender specific frame of analysis. They furthermore highlight the variation in consumption patterns according to different roles attributed to women. When considering prostitution as another social role, the present article brings us to think of the positive symbolic value of alcohol consumption in the definition of womanhood. Data collected during field work in Bolivia allows us to suggest the hypothesis that this consumption redefines the relationship of women prostitutes with their clients and their relation to sexual activity. It subsequently allows these women to distance themselves from the stigmatizing attributes of their work and to join the ranks of honourable women. This discussion brings us to think of alcohol consumption independently from drug use and to go further than its sociosanitary aspects, to consequently focus on the subjective meaning that such an individual, social and cultural activity may have.
Keywords: consommation d'alcool, prostitution, genre, féminité, rôles sociaux, Bolivie, alcohol consumption, prostitution, gender, femininity, social roles, Bolivia, consumo de alcohol, prostitución, género, femineidad, roles sociales, Bolivia
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AbstractThis paper puts sex tourism, which expanded in Thailand from the 1960s' onwards, back into the global context of prostitution as it is locally conceived and practicized. Various historic and cultural factors are considered to explain the scale of the phenomenon. The images of the prostitutes and of their Western customers depicted by the local urban elites and the poor peasantry are compared, and their differences pointed out. Based upon mobility and the contact with foreigners from inside or outside, prostitution stands in a deep state of ambiguity which relates to the identity stakes it crystallizes and to the latent tensions between social classes and ethnic components of the nation it expresses.
Keywords: Formoso, tourisme sexuel, prostitution, genre, Thaïlande, Formoso, sex tourism, prostitution, gender, Thailand
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AbstractThis article deals with the subjective/figurative use of toponyms and anthroponyms in English, French and German. The author describes the phenomenon and provides trilingual lexicons with explanations and equivalents.
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