Intersections of Gender and Sexuality in Police Abuses Against Transgender Sex Workers in Sri Lanka

2013 ◽  
pp. 165-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea J. Nichols
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Gender And Sexuality

scholarly journals Female Subversion through Sex Work: Transgressive Discourses

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 114-137
Author(s):  
Marta Olasik
Keyword(s):  
Sex Work ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
The Other ◽  
Sex Industry ◽  
Female Sex ◽  
Lesbian Studies ◽  
The One

The main objective of this article is to provide a multi-faceted and spatially-sensitive reflection on sex work. Taking as a point of departure subversive feminist politics on the one hand and the much contingent notion of citizenship on the other, I intend to present various forms of prostitution as potentially positive and empowering modes of sexual and emotional auto-creation. Informed by the leading research of the subject, as well as inspired and educated by Australia-based Dr Elizabeth Smith from La Trobe University in Melbourne, who had researched and presented female sex workers as self-caring and subversive subjects who make own choices and derive satisfaction from their occupation, I wish to seek academic justice for all those women (and men or trans people, for that matter) in the sex industry who feel stigmatized by political pressure and ultra-feminist circles across Europe. Translating Dr Smith’s significant research into European (and Polish) social realities would be a valuable contribution to the local discussions on gender and sexuality, and axes they intersect with. More importantly, however, a framework of a conceptual interdisciplinary approach needs to be adopted—one in which a specific queer form of lesbian feminist reflection is combined with human geography, both of which have much to offer to various strands of sociological theory and practice. Therefore, as a queer lesbian scholar based in Poland, I would like to diverge a bit from my usual topic in order to pay an academic and activist tribute to the much neglected strand of sociology of sex work. However, my multi-faceted and interdisciplinary academic activity allows me to combine the matter in question with the field of lesbian studies. Both a female sex worker and a lesbian have been culturally positioned through the lens of what so-called femininity is, without a possibility to establish control over their own subjectivities. Hence, on the one hand the article is going to be an academic re-interpretation of sex work as such, but on the other, methodological possibilities of acknowledging and researching lesbian sex workers will be additionally considered with special attention to feminist epistemologies and praxis. While a sensitivity to a given locality is of utmost importance when dealing with gender and sexuality issues, I would like to suggest a somewhat overall approach to investigating both female empowerment through sex work and lesbian studies inclusive of sex workers. Importantly, the more common understandings of the sex industry need to be de-constructed in order for a diversity of transgressive discourses to emerge.

Gender and Sexuality in Brazil since Independence

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sueann Caulfield ◽  
Cristiana Schettini
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Sexual Minorities ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Sexual Revolution ◽  
Labor Rights ◽  
Sexual Roles ◽  
1960S And 1970S

Over the past forty years, increasing attention to gender and sexuality in Brazilian historiography has given us a nuanced understanding of diverse ways in which women and men in Brazil’s past experienced patriarchy, racism, and other forms of oppression. As gender historians have shed light on how racialized and patriarchal gender and sexual roles have been reconstituted in different historical contexts, empirical studies in the field of social history have focused primarily on the historical agency of women, particularly non-elite women, who lived within or pushed against the confines of prescribed gender roles. Pioneering histories of sexual minorities have accompanied this trajectory since the 1980s, although this subfield has grown more slowly. A few nodal themes help to explain transformations in gender relations during each of the major periods of Brazil’s social and political history. Under the empire (1822–1889), honor is the entryway for analysis of gender and sexuality. Gendered standards of honor were critical tools used to mark class and racial boundaries, and to traverse them. Historians of the imperial period also stress the centrality of gender to the social, cultural, and economic networks built by members of various occupational, familial, and kinship groups. During the First Republic (1889–1930), the focus shifts to state vigilance and social control, together with debates over modernization of sexual and gender norms, particularly regarding urban space and prostitution. In the Vargas era (1930–1945), patriarchy and racialized sexuality formed the core of intellectual constructions of the nation’s history and identity, at the same time that homosexuality and women’s and worker’s rights generated intense debate. A new emphasis on domesticity emerged in the context of developmentalism in the 1950s, helping to spur a reaction in the form of the counterculture and sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s. The dictatorship (1964–1985) went to great lengths to suppress challenges to gender and sexual norms as part of its broader strategy to demobilize society and repress oppositional political movements. These challenges reemerged in the 1970s, when feminists and sexual minorities gained much greater visibility within a new wave of social movements. The 1988 constitution articulated these movements’ aspirations for social justice and equality through its foundational principal of human dignity. Significant legal changes followed over subsequent decades, including recognition of equal labor rights for domestic and sex workers, affirmative-action policies, and the legalization of same-sex marriage, in 2011. Despite notable setbacks, the momentum toward gender and sexual equality at the start of the 21st century was remarkable. This momentum was halted by the political coup that ousted the first woman president in 2016. The anti-feminist mood that accompanied the impeachment process underscored an overarching theme that runs through the historiography of gender and sexuality in Brazil: the centrality of gender to the major legal and political shifts that mark the nation’s history.

scholarly journals Mapping and size estimation of female sex workers and men who have sex with men in Sri Lanka

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 47 ◽  
Author(s):  
DA Karawita ◽  
S Moses ◽  
I Emmanuel ◽  
I Shajy ◽  
N Edirisinghe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Female Sex Workers ◽  
Size Estimation ◽  
Female Sex ◽  
Sex With Men

scholarly journals STD in the Central Province of Sri Lanka, Are Commercial sex workers responsible?

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
LI Rajapaksa ◽  
R Jagath
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Central Province ◽  
Commercial Sex ◽  
Commercial Sex Workers

scholarly journals HIV prevalence, sexual risk behaviours and HIV testing among female sex workers in three cities in Sri Lanka: Findings from respondent-driven sampling surveys

PLoS ONE ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (10) ◽  
pp. e0239951
Author(s):  
Ariyaratne Manathunge ◽  
Jelena Barbaric ◽  
Tomislav Mestrovic ◽  
Sriyakanthi Beneragama ◽  
Ivana Bozicevic
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Hiv Testing ◽  
Sexual Risk ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Female Sex Workers ◽  
Hiv Prevalence ◽  
Respondent Driven Sampling ◽  
Risk Behaviours ◽  
Female Sex ◽  
Sexual Risk Behaviours

scholarly journals Estimating the population size of female sex workers and transgender women  in Sri Lanka

PLoS ONE ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. e0227689 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivana Bozicevic ◽  
Ariyaratne Manathunge ◽  
Zoran Dominkovic ◽  
Sriyakanthi Beneragama ◽  
Kelsi Kriitmaa
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Population Size ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Female Sex Workers ◽  
Transgender Women ◽  
Female Sex

Dance Ponnaya, Dance! Police Abuses Against Transgender Sex Workers in Sri Lanka

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Nichols
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Sex Workers

Gendered Carceral Regimes in Sri Lanka: Colonial Laws, Postcolonial Practices, and the Social Control of Sex Workers

Signs ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jody Miller ◽  
Kristin Carbone-Lopez
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
The Social
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