Overview
- Connects the discussions around sex work and sexual assault to broader debates on gender and sexuality
- Looks at how EU norms governing gender and sexuality have changed
- Explains how the EU engages with notions of ‘appropriate’ European values around gender and sexuality
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The legal regulation of gender and sexuality has undergone dramatic changes throughout Europe in the last 40 years and this has shaped what it means to be a European citizen. Drawing on a range of interdisciplinary research, this book uses the discourses around current European sexual politics as an entry point to interrogate how, and with what effect, the EU and its Member States harness issues of gender and sexuality to support issues of higher political importance. It takes recent and ongoing political debates and legislative changes around prostitution and sexual assault as a focus. Using four national case studies: Poland, Germany, Sweden and Italy it illuminates how the EU’s desire for increased harmonisation across the Union around gender and sexuality norms and values operates differently and with specific effects across Member States. The book’s structure provides a detailed map of how and why contemporary European sexual politics is changing, and how this contributes to establishing European norms and values in developments in law and policy around prostitution and sexual assault. By examining how and why the EU and its Member States implement their policies in these two policy areas we can begin to illuminate how contemporary European sexual politics serve some groups’ interests while marginalizing ‘Others’.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
May-Len Skilbrei is Professor in the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law at the University of Oslo, Norway.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sexual Politics in Contemporary Europe
Book Subtitle: Moving Targets, Sitting Ducks
Authors: Sharron FitzGerald, May-Len Skilbrei
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91174-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-91173-7Published: 02 February 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-91174-4Published: 01 February 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 136
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Critical Criminology, Crime Control and Security, Politics and Gender, Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law, Social Policy, Politics of the Welfare State