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Disability Rights Meet Sex Workers’ Rights: the Making of Sexual Assistance in Europe
No full textThe last decade has seen an expansion in initiatives promoting the development of special sex services oriented to people with disabilities, which in Europe are increasingly labelled ‘sexual assistance’. These have become the object of political and media attention, and arguably call for a critical analysis incorporating both disability and sex workers’ rights perspectives. Based on an 18-month embedded participant observation, I explore the case of a grassroots organisation which brings together sexual assistants, disabled activists and (potential) clients, and their allies in Switzerland. Opposing ‘therapy’, ‘charity’, and ‘care’ approaches to sexual assistance, members of this organisation work within their own model of ‘ethical’ services. While they place sexual pleasure at the centre of this approach, in practice, they promote forms of self-regulation aimed at limiting the risks of sex services, connected in particular to intimate violence, stigmatisation, sex normativity, and the role of intermediaries. Clearly rooted in a disability rights perspective, this grassroots initiative does not only concern sexual assistance but more largely sex services. In this sense, this study invites us to look at sexual assistance as an interesting space for alliance between sex workers’ rights and the rights of people with disabilities, as a uniquely politicised group of (potential) clients
Contre-éxemples a l'inégalité de Korn et au lemme de Lions dans les domaines irréguliers
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Analisi asintotica di travi in stato piano di elasticità
No full textIn questa nota si studia il comportamento della soluzione del problema dell’equilibrio elastico bidimensionale in una striscia soggetta a generiche condizioni di carico e la cui lunghezza tende a diventare illimitata. Introducendo la funzione delle tensioni di Airy, tale problema viene descritto da una equazione ellittica del quarto ordine con condizioni di Dirichlet non omogenee per una famiglia parametrica di travi denotate dallo scalare positivo e, rappresentante l’inverso della snellezza, e destinato a tendere a zero. Per eps > 0, il problema di Dirichlet per equazioni ellittiche del quarto ordine possiede un’unica soluzione. Nel presente lavoro si mostra che, per eps -> 0, la funzione di Airy converge fortemente verso un limite descritto da un problema variazionale ben posto. Per arbitrarie distribuzioni di carico prescritte in corrispondenza delle basi, la soluzione asintotica coincide con quella classica di Saint-Venant
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