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Sexualidades e cultura

Trânsitos (2013)

O livro problematiza debates e desconstrói megaconceitos – entre os quais tráfico de seres humanos e prostituição – revelando-nos com sensibilidade como suas protagonistas ressignificam seu capital social e os estereótipos de brasilidade em contextos específicos, em prol de seus sonhos e estratégias familiares.

Sexualidades e cultura

Devir Puta (2013)

Neste livro, José Miguel segue com honestidade intelectual a trajetória de quatro lideranças da prostituição exercidas por mulheres, desde suas juventudes e acompanhando suas inserções na prostituição de rua no centro de Porto Alegre.

Interviews

Criminalizing prostitution

Argentinas abolitionist stance treats the persons who work as prostitutes as victims of human trafficking. Eugenia Aravena, executive secretary of AMMAR Cordoba explains that the criminal framework that makes their trade clandestine criminalizes them and leads to greater exploitation. (Text in Spanish.)

News

Rape as a global phenomenon

The recent wave of rapes in Brazil, India, Egypt and the US validates that rape is a global phenomenon, though any individual experience of rape is deep-rooted in a social and political context, which also affects the ways in which the victim, the perpetrator, their families, and local institutions react and represent what happened, experts say.

News

Call for Papers – Post-Transitional Fertility in Developing Countries: Causes and Implications

For almost 70 years the idea of the demographic transition has been central to our understanding of global population dynamics. After many decades of relevance, however, the utility of the demographic transition model for anticipating the future is rapidly diminishing.what can we expect in the future in the low fertility regions of the world?