Feminism, Prostitution and the State: The Politics of by Eilis Ward,Gillian Wylie

By Eilis Ward,Gillian Wylie
This edited quantity makes a speciality of charting the increase of neo-abolitionism and providing a critique of the belief, its logics and outcomes. A version of kingdom coverage which goals to abolish prostitution via laws, Neo-abolitionism criminalises the client of intercourse yet now not the vendor. it's at the moment legislations in Sweden and different Nordic states and dominates the framing of coverage debates in lots of different Western liberal contexts. strain for adoption of this coverage has come from radical feminists who comprehend prostitution and intercourse trafficking as a sort of violence opposed to girls.
This quantity argues that this convergence among radical feminism and state’s pursuits arises from the emergence of, at the one hand, ‘governance feminism’ which seeks to have its beliefs applied via ‘top-down sovereigntist means’, and however, state’s pursuits in legitimising stricter border controls and legislations enforcement responses when it comes to transnational organised illegal activity, ‘illegal’ migration, and protection.
Based round a chain of kingdom case reviews every one bankruptcy will discover the politics surrounding the emergence of neo-abolitionism and its trajectory via these polities, no matter if the paradigm has been followed, rejected or continues to be less than debate. the amount might be of significant curiosity to scholars and students of Social and Public coverage, Gender and Women’s reports, Politics and diplomacy and important felony Studies/Criminology.
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