Sexual labour and the reproduction of capital in Northern Cyprus

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The general purpose of this thesis is to provide a gendered analysis of the ways in which States use their power to facilitate and promote accumulation, specifically primitive accumulation. I will seek to demonstrate in this study that women, classed and racialised, and especially those migrating within the neo-liberal global political economy are exploited not only through the classical alienation of their labour, but from the application of the additional extra-economic power of patriarchy and the tools that provides to states, and typically male owning classes. Women’s position in patriarchal society and patriarchal capitalism may transform their experiences with capital and the state into a relationship of accumulation by dispossession rather than having their labour alienated and exploited under typical expanded reproduction. States use the constructions of women as subordinate under patriarchy, as well as others about migrant labour, or about the ‘aberrant’ nature of sex work, to justify the use of women’s bodies in the sex trade in a way that promotes the primitive accumulation, or accumulation by dispossession of surplus value from their labour and bodies. This study will use the Turkish Republic of northern Cyprus as an example to highlight the arguments made about the ability of a patriarchal state in collusion with capital, to use the extra controls afforded by patriarchy to primitively accumulate wealth from women, and to reproduce that ability on a continuous scale.

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Patriarchy, State, Prostitution, Primitive Accumulation/Accumulation by Dispossession, Northern Cyprus, Devlet, Fuhuş, İlkel Birikim, Erkek Egemen, Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti

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R. Kumi, “Sexual labour and the reproduction of capital in Northern Cyprus,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2012.