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AIDS and Sex Workers: A Case of Patriarchy Interruptus

2001· article· en· W1535750798 on OpenAlexvenueaboutno aff
Diane Meaghan

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian women's studies · 2001
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicSex work and related issues
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSex workPopulationPatriarchySex workersAgency (philosophy)Intervention (counseling)CriminologyLaw enforcementSexual transmissionDiseasePolitical sciencePsychologyMedicineSociologyGender studiesDemographyHuman immunodeficiency virus (HIV)LawFamily medicinePsychiatry
DOInot available

Abstract

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With the advent of HIV/AIDS “crisis” during the 1980s female sex workers were viewed as “high risk” group for spreading AIDS in the general population (read: white hetero-sexual men and their “innocent” wives and children). Given that prostitution has long been perceived as a threat to public health a medical model of disease made a particularly compelling connection between infection and sex work which conflated sexual activity with disease transmission adopted a risk-based intervention approach that pathologized sex work and scapegoated sex workers (Meaghan 1989). Rather than enabling sex workers to minimize health risks while working many policy-makers and law enforcement agents have attempted to eradicate or regulate commercial sexual encounters by requiring sex workers to register to be confined to segregated areas and to be inspected and quarantined if found to be infected (Morgan Thomas; Canadian Organization for the Rights of Prostitutes). Media accounts suggested that those who performed this kind of work were “reservoirs of infection” and blamed sex workers for disease and disorder in society (Aralt and Wasserheit 33). State policies and practices dramatically increased legal moral and social censure of sex workers while failing to deal with the real risks posed to them by clients (Bastow; Brock 1989; Brock 1998). Rarely in these cultural discourses were sex workers perceived as possessing a specialized knowledge concerning sexual agency and safer sex practices in HIV/AIDS prevention. (excerpt)

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.127
Threshold uncertainty score0.963

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.029
GPT teacher head0.313
Teacher spread0.284 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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Citations4
Published2001
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