Sexual Autonomy and Violence Against Women

Our position is that the threat and experience of violence that sex workers face is a crucial issue to address and should be considered in debates concerning the legalization of prostitution because even in countries where prostitution is legalized, prostitutes continue to experience violence. Our focus is to show that violence is crucially important to address because both the experience and the fear of physical, sexual or psychological harm erodes women ’s capacity to choose and act autonomously. We shall argue, then, that despite differences between inside and outside prostitution, all women in prostitution suffer unacceptable levels of violence ; hence, we conclude that all forms of prostitution continue to be morally problemati

Bodily Limits to Autonomy: Emotion, Attitude, and Self-Defence

Many of us took pride in never feeling violent, never hitting. We had not thought deeply about our relationships to inflicting physical pain. Some of us expressed terror and awe when confronted with physical strength on the part of others. For us, the healing process included the need to learn how to use physical force constructively, to remove the terror—the dread. —bell hooks, Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Blac

Information Guide: FAQ: Using Research Data. CREATe, University of Glasgow, 2018

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Information Guide: Introduction to Ownership of Rights in Research Data. CREATe, University of Glasgow, 2018

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Information Guide: Making Research Data Available. CREATe, University of Glasgow, 2018

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