Overview
- Discusses key narratives contributing to Westminster sex-work/prostitution policy debates.
- Scrutinises policy narratives (and their production) in dialogue with critical social theory.
- Challenges us to ‘think differently’ about policy debates and a progressive politics of sex-work/prostitution
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Science, Knowledge and Policy (SKP)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Keywords
- prostitution
- sex work
- critical discourse analysis
- policy analysis
- feminist discourse
- critical social theory
- prostitution policy debate
- feminist sociology
- UK policy on prostitution
- the neoliberal agenda
- plurality of narratives
- social justice
- gender studies
- Vulnerability in sex work
- The Language of Violence
- Gayle Rubin
About this book
This book analyses the plurality of narratives which contribute to Westminster sex-work/prostitution policy debates and subsequently seeks to situate them within the social and political conditions of their production. Hewer illustrates that contemporary sex-work/prostitution debates are constituted through a complex entanglement of ideologically hybrid perspectives, which variously challenge and ingrain extant relations of power. Moreover, by drawing on a range of feminist and other critical social theories, Hewer offers a way to think differently about both sex-work/prostitution debates and sex-work/prostitution itself.
The book will be a valuable resource for researchers and students from across the social sciences with an interest in the language used to talk about sex-work and prostitution in policy debates.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sex-Work, Prostitution and Policy
Book Subtitle: A Feminist Discourse Analysis
Authors: Rebecca MF Hewer
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Science, Knowledge and Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74954-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74953-8Published: 05 August 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74956-9Published: 06 August 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-74954-5Published: 04 August 2021
Series ISSN: 2947-5805
Series E-ISSN: 2947-5813
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 292
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Social Policy, Politics of the Welfare State, Social Work and Community Development, Comparative Social Policy, Gender Studies, Human Geography