Muslim women and foreign prostitutes: Victim discourse, subjectivity, and governance

Social Politics

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 270-294

  Jacobsen, Christine M ^a   Stenvoll, Dag ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFLICT; CULTURAL FACTOR; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY CONFLICT; FEMALE; HISTORY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LEGAL ASPECT; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PROSTITUTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION; SOCIAL CONTROL; VICTIM; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); CRIME VICTIMS; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FAMILY CONFLICT; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; INTERNATIONALITY; ISLAM; POLITICAL SYSTEMS; PROSTITUTION; RELIGION; SOCIAL CONTROL POLICIES; WOMEN; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

EID: 77956467802     PISSN: 10724745     EISSN: 14682893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sp/jxq011     Document Type: Article

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