Sex work and related issues

Özet henüz yok.

• BÜLENT TURAN

1. Introduction. A Sociology of the Camp? Part 1: Theorizing the Camp 2. Exception and Emergency 3. Biopolitics 4. Risk and Terror Part 2: Inside the Camp 5. Spaces: From Refugee Camps to Gated Communities 6. Bodies: From Rape Camps to Sex Tourism 7. Fantasies: From Fight Club to September 11 8. In/Exclusions: From Fa…

This article summarizes main trends, issues, actors, and activities regarding the operation and extension of human trafficking and smuggling via irregular border crossings in the Middle East. Its premise is that rather than the obvious involvement of hierarchical mafia‐type organized crime groups, globally articulated…

Özet henüz yok.

• MURAT GÜL

Özet henüz yok.

• GALMA AKDENİZ

This survey produced baseline information about student knowledge of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), their sexual attitudes, and their behavior to help establish control and education programs. The study was conducted at Ege University, Izmir, Turkey, during the 1999-2000 academic year. A total of 2,217 first- a…

• AYŞE DENİZ GÖKENGİN

The aim of this study was to determine the factors affecting the exposure of women in the 15-59 age group in Turkey to economic violence by their husbands/partners. The micro data set of the National Research on Domestic Violence against Women in Turkey, which was conducted by the Hacettepe University Institute of Pop…

• ÖMER ALKAN
• ŞEYDA ÜNVER

This study explores the severity and frequency of physical violence from an intimate partner experienced by 15- to 59-year-old women and their help-seeking behavior by using data from the "National Research on Domestic Violence Against Women in Turkey." Chi-square tests and logistic regression analyses were conducted…

• İLKNUR YÜKSEL KAPTANOĞLU

This paper combines an ethnography of sexual activities, personal identities and social relations of men‐who‐have‐sex‐with‐men in Bolivia with an analysis of attempts by government and international development agencies to create a demographically identifiable population of "gay" Bolivians. A first person account of a…

The present study examines intimate partner violence (IPV) reported by a sample of women in Zimbabwe to explore factors associated with the problem. Findings from the study indicate an important role of gender relationships in violence against women. The effects of gender inequalities on the likelihood of IPV vary wit…

• AHMET FİDAN

A large, nationally representative, cross-sectional survey was conducted in Turkey in 2008. In this survey, which used the WHO (World Health Organization) study module on violence, information about lifetime and current violence (past 12 months) was obtained using weighted, stratified, and multistage cluster sampling.…

• İLKNUR YÜKSEL KAPTANOĞLU

Recently, ‘rent boys’ have become increasingly visible in the queer social spaces of Istanbul. They come from impoverished areas of the city and engage in compensated sex with other men. In this article, I examine how these heterosexually identified rent boys assemble and perform exaggerated masculinity in order to ne…

• CENK ÖZBAY