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Ummni Khan
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Latest papers
5 The Kinky Brat: Speak Pleasure to Power
New York University Press eBooks · 2024 · first author
Fifty Shades of a Moral Panic!
2022 · first author
A guilty pleasure: The legal, social scientific and feminist verdict against rap
Theoretical Criminology · 2021 · first author
Latest funding
- $25,000
Canada 150: Visions for Canada, 2042
SSHRC · 2016 · Co-investigator
- $62,494
Sex Buyer Beware: Constructions and Representation of Sex Trade Clients and their Impact on Law
SSHRC · 2013 · Principal investigator
- $16,052
Sex buyers in the spotlight: the emergence of a new sexual category and its influence on law
SSHRC · 2011 · Principal investigator
43 publications.
5 The Kinky Brat: Speak Pleasure to Power
Ummni Khan
Fifty Shades of a Moral Panic!
Ummni Khan
A guilty pleasure: The legal, social scientific and feminist verdict against rap
Ummni Khan
Kinky identity and practice in relation to the law
Ummni Khan
Homosexuality and Prostitution: A Tale of Two Deviancies
Ummni Khan
10. Antiprostitution Feminism and the Surveillance of Sex Industry Clients
Ummni Khan
Rape as Play: Yellow Peril Panic and a Defence of Fantasy
Ummni Khan, Jean Ketterling
Chester Brown and the Queerness of Johns
Ummni Khan
Torn: A Social Media Drama over the Aziz Ansari Scandal
Rena Bivens, Ummni Khan
Staging the Trials of Modernism: Testimony and the British Modern Literary Consciousness
Ummni Khan
Canada 150: Visions for Canada, 2042
Keywords: Canada; Canada 150; future; public policy; citizenship; economy; governance; global affairs; indigenous-canada relations; environment; care; communications; immigration; justice; transportation; infrastructure
Sex Buyer Beware: Constructions and Representation of Sex Trade Clients and their Impact on Law
Principal investigators: Khan, Ummni
Sex buyers in the spotlight: the emergence of a new sexual category and its influence on law
Principal investigators: Khan, Ummni
Keywords: sex work; male clients; legal regulation of prostitution; charter challenge; sexual identity; gender; criminalization; sexology; social; behavioural and medical science; media studies; cinematic representation; discourse analysis; deconstruction
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
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