An Integrated Theoretical Framework to Describe Human Trafficking of Young Women and Girls for Involuntary Prostitution

Self-sexualization is an emerging area of research relevant to clothing researchers as evaluations of sexual appeal often stem from specific items and uses of dress. Our research purpose was to systematically review the available research on self-sexualization. In our review we focused specifically on three topics: what precedes self-sexualizing? What outcomes are associated with self-sexualizing? And how has self-sexualization been operationalized? The time frame for this review was 2007–2020. To locate the 31 journal articles that supplied the data for this research, multiple data bases were searched using the following search terms: self-sexualization, self-sexualizing, and sexual self-presentation. Important precursors to self-sexualization include exposure to media and social media, self-objectification, internalization of sexualization, and desiring attention from others. Empowerment has been studied as an outcome of self-sexualization along with negative inferences concerning both young women and girls that self-sexualize. Operationalization of self-sexualization is varied and likely contributes to inconsistent findings.

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“Willing Victims”: The Prevalence of Violence And Public Discourse against Indigenous Women and Girls

INvoke ◽

10.29173/invoke48980 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 5 ◽

Author(s):

Cassidy Johnson

Keyword(s):

Public Discourse ◽

Theoretical Framework ◽

Indigenous Women ◽

Women And Girls ◽

The Creation ◽

Police Abuse

Drawing on the current research, I argue that the extensive violence against Canada's Indigenous women and girls is enabled by public discourses that rely heavily on racist stereotypes. I use Razack's theoretical framework of "gendered disposibility" and "colonial terror" as a lense for critically viewing violence against Indigenous women and girls. To demonstrate the severity of violence, evidence from the Highway of Tears cases, incidents of police abuse, and the creation of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls are all covered.

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MEDIA EDUCATION: the fight against post-truth and misinformation on trafficking in women and girls

Revista Observatório ◽

10.20873/uft.2447-4266.2020v6n6a6en ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 6 (6) ◽

pp. a6en

Author(s):

Sandra de Souza Machado ◽

Begoña Sánchez Torrejón ◽

Víctor Amar Rodríguez

Keyword(s):

Gender Studies ◽

Media Literacy ◽

Young Women ◽

21St Century ◽

Gender Violence ◽

Media Education ◽

Fake News ◽

Global Pandemic ◽

Trafficking In Women ◽

Women And Girls

Data, discursive and methodological analysis, from the perspective of Communication and Education gender studies, are applied aiming media literacy for a responsive citizenship in the fight against trafficking in women and girls. Questioning gender violence in misinformation, fake news, post-truths, and malicious intentions. Media literacy, co-education and collective awareness function as strategies of action to combat the trafficking of (young) women, which reaches alarming degrees in the 21st century, including during the global pandemic of COVID-19.

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To Protect and Responsibilize: The Discursive Explosion of Combining Youth Sexuality, Human Trafficking, and Online Spaces

Canadian Journal of Women and the Law/Revue Femmes et Droit ◽

10.3138/cjwl.33.1.03 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 33 (1) ◽

pp. 58-83

Author(s):

Katrin Roots ◽

Emily Lockhart

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Human Trafficking ◽

Sexual Risk ◽

Sexual Behaviour ◽

Digital Technologies ◽

Online Spaces ◽

Women And Girls ◽

Risk Takers ◽

Victim Vulnerability

The emergence of social media and digital technologies has resulted in new protectionist laws, policies, and mandates aimed at regulating the sexual behaviour of women and girls in online spaces. These neoliberal responsiblization strategies are aimed at shaping good, young digital citizens and have become further amplified through increased concerns about domestic human trafficking and victim vulnerability. This protectionism, however, is not always reflected in courtroom proceedings, revealing a tension between the protection and responsiblization of victims of trafficking in Canada. Using R v Oliver-Machado (2013) as a case study, we examine the ways in which the defence counsel’s reliance on commonplace defence tactics used in sexual assault cases responsibilize the young complainants in an attempt to discredit their victimhood and reconstruct them as online sexual risk takers.

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Lion and Lambs

The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199757640.013.028 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 396-416

Author(s):

Carol Donelan ◽

Ronald Rodman

Keyword(s):

Digital Media ◽

Young Women ◽

Film Industry ◽

Young Female ◽

Pop Music ◽

Female Desire ◽

Hollywood Film ◽

Musical Scores ◽

Women And Girls ◽

Music Market

This article appears in the Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media edited by Carol Vernallis, Amy Herzog, and John Richardson. With the advent of the Twilight Saga, the teen vampire subgenre has sunk its teeth into the blockbuster film franchise. Its migration into big-budget corporate cinema prompts a negotiation between the Hollywood film industry and the D-quadrant audience of young women and girls. The industry, for its part, has agreed to adopt a protective rather than predatory stance, offering young female viewers a PG-13 fantasy rather than exposing them to representations of sexual violence that “go too far,” are too threatening or age-inappropriate. At the same time, the industry not only acknowledges the existence of female desire, but represents its darker, uncanny dimensions. Newly composed musical scores play a major role in facilitating the experience of the uncanny for viewers without overshooting their tastes and sensibilities. The pop music in the films serves to initiate the audience into the adult music market.

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The Muslim Surgeon and Contemporary Ethical Dilemmas Surrounding the Restoration of Virginity

Hawwa ◽

10.1163/156920807782912490 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 5 (2-3) ◽

pp. 324-349 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Vardit Rispler-Chaim

Keyword(s):

Young Women ◽

Ethical Issues ◽

Ethical Dilemmas ◽

The Status ◽

The Subject ◽

Women And Girls ◽

The Impact ◽

Scientific Technology ◽

Status Of Women

AbstractIn the last few decades surgeons have been able to perform an operation that repairs a torn hymen, and thus allows young women and girls whose hymen is not intact to reappear as virgins. Most of the ethical issues related to hymen repair surgery concern the conduct of the surgeon and the question of whether restoration of virginity is a way to deceive husbands. The status of hymen restoration surgery has been the subject of several fatwas issued by leading religious authorities and articles written by Muslim lawyers, physicians and ethicists. Virginity restoration, based on the above sources, appears to have its supporters and opponents. The study of hymen restoration is also related to the status of women in society and their rights, to ancient social taboos, and to the impact of modern scientific technology on society at large.

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Feasibility of the Inframammary Location for Insertable Loop Recorders in Young Women and Girls

Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology ◽

10.1111/j.1540-8159.2004.00469.x ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 27 (4) ◽

pp. 492-494 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

PRINCE J. KANNANKERIL ◽

DEBORAH A. BIBEAU ◽

FRANK A. FISH

Keyword(s):

Young Women ◽

Women And Girls

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