Women and Children First? An Analysis of Gender Roles in the Rescue of People Following the 2011 Lorca Earthquake

SummaryThis article analyses the debate on trafficking and policies to combat the recruitment of persons for commercial sex within the Advisory Committee on the Traffic in Women and Children of the League of Nations. Its main argument is that the Committee's governmental and non-governmental representatives engaged in what might be called a “moral recruitment of women”. This form of recruitment had a double purpose: to protect females from prostitution through the provision of “good employment”, and to repress intermediaries of prostitution by means of criminalization. Three elements of the Committee's internal debates and concrete actions will receive special attention. Firstly, the ideological framework (feminism, social purity, humanitarianism, abolitionism, regulationism, and/or class); secondly, the gender dynamics (differences of opinion between the Committee's male and female representatives); and thirdly the degree of gendering (construction or reinforcement of gender roles and relations).

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Women and Children First

Women and Children First ◽

10.2307/j.ctt1djmh39.7 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 25-65

Keyword(s):

Women And Children ◽

Children First

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Women and Children First

Perils of Protection ◽

10.14325/mississippi/9781496819895.003.0002 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 15-44

Author(s):

Susan Honeyman

Keyword(s):

Protective Measures ◽

Women And Children ◽

Heroic Narrative ◽

Children First

At its most basic and cliché level, protectionism require slip service to "putting children first, "while obscuring just exactly what that means or how it can be done. This chapter expose sharsh hierarchies of survival usually hidden by sent imental romance and heroic narrative, enabled by eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuryprinciples of property and ownership, in which children were far from first and often dead last. Though the chivalrousecho "women and children first" would become adominant sentiment in fictionalized modern survival narratives, early maritime historiestella different story about protective measures for children at sea, which the author highlights through historic accounts of rescue practice during famous ship wrecks, the legal predicament of Amistad "orphans," and even customs of survival can nibalism. Protection, where present, ishighly selective, and even where seemingly fairly applied can impedeparticipation.

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1 Women and Children First

America's Geisha Ally ◽

10.4159/9780674043565-003 ◽

2006 ◽

pp. 13-53

Keyword(s):

Women And Children ◽

Children First

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Women and children first? Gender equity in paediatric medicine

Archives of Disease in Childhood ◽

10.1136/archdischild-2018-316586 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. archdischild-2018-316586 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Tessa Davis ◽

Henry Goldstein ◽

Dani Hall ◽

Ben Lawton ◽

Grace Sze Yin Leo ◽

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Keyword(s):

Gender Equity ◽

Diversity And Inclusion ◽

Paediatric Medicine ◽

Women And Children ◽

Children First

There has been an increased focus on diversity and inclusion in medicine in recent years—the field of medicine still has a long way to go to reach gender equity. We assess how paediatrics is performing by examining the role gender plays in our specialty; and we propose some practical solutions to reach an equitable state. Achieving gender equity is not a simple or easy option and will require an ongoing commitment from all facets of the profession.

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