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The Lived Experiences of Sex Workers in South Africa: An Existential Phenomenological Exploration
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Gertie Pretorius --- University of Johannesburg, Dale Bricker --- University of Johannesburg,We explored the lived experiences of sex workers in South Africa by employing a phenomenological methodology. Five women between the ages of 34 and 48 years who were/are involved in this industry were interviewed between January and March 2008. Through... -
Sex work, reform initiatives and HIV/AIDS in inner-city Johannesburg
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Marlise RichterThe on-going criminalisation of sex work in South Africa, concurrent sexual partnerships, socio-economic vulnerability, migrant status and gender-based violence intensify sex workers' risk of contracting HIV. These factors combine to restrict the skills, ability and resources of sex workers to... -
Sexuality, Power and Transgression: Homophobia in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Memory of Departure
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Kimani Kaigai --- Literature Department, KenyaThis paper offers a reading of Zanzibari-born, UK-based writer, Abdulrazak Gurnah’ debut novel, Memory of Departure in order to explore how the novel positions sexual activities that are seen as transgressive and how contestations over these bodily activities imply issues... -
‘Deadly gonorrhoea’: history, collective memory and early HIV epidemiology in East Central Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Jan Kuhanen --- Department of Geographical and Historical Studies, FinlandThis article combines local oral reminiscences with recent epidemiological literature to sketch a historical context around the onset and expansion of the HIV-1 epidemic in southern Uganda and north-western Tanzania. The local historical imagination has associated the appearance of AIDS... -
Human trafficking in the hotel industry in the Netherlands: the fine line between service, responsibility and liability
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Erwin van der Graaf --- Accor Hotels, The NetherlandsHuman trafficking is the fastest growing form of organised crime and the biggest source of income for criminals in Europe. Within the prostitution sector, there is a shift towards less visible forms such as hotel prostitution. About half of all... -
The Nairobi Prostitution Histories: Perspectives from Kenyan Novels
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Wafula Yenjela --- Deptartment of Literature, Creative & Performing Arts, KenyaThis article articulates novelists’ constructions of prostitutes’ humanity in the city’s complex spaces that are both enabling and problematic. Through a reading of selected novels in tandem with Kenyan social histories, the article underpins why the city developed into a... -
An assessment of sex work in Swaziland: barriers to and opportunities for HIV prevention among sex workers
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Shalote Chipamaunga --- Faculty of Health Sciences, Centre for Health Science Education, University of the Witwatersrand, Adamson S Muula --- University of Malawi College of Medicine, Ronald Mataya --- Loma Linda University School of Public Health, USAThe HIV situation in virtually all southern African countries is a generalised epidemic. Despite the fact that almost all adult age and social groups have high HIV prevalence estimates, sex workers are disproportionally affected, with prevalence estimates higher than the...
