Regulating Women (eBook)

Policymaking and Practice in the UK

Sarah Cooper (Autor)

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2016
224 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield International (Verlag)
978-1-78348-186-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Draws together comparative policy analysis related to prominent women’s issues in the UK, exploring their construction and management through the conceptual lenses of new institutionalism.

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A number of women's issues serve to create novel policy problems that require creative, and sometimes unique, regulatory and legal responses. This book embarks upon a comparative case study approach to explore UK policymaking in the areas of abortion, rape, prostitution and pornography in turn. Each chapter engages a different institutional perspective to explore the influence of a range of bodies such as the legal system, medical profession, civil society, police force and mass media. The analysis reveals a common thread that runs throughout decision-making in these areas; a constant balancing act between regulation that purports to protect women, and regulation that supposedly reflects female liberation, with a continual dance between the labels of 'criminal' and 'victim' being performed by policy actors. Largely reflective of a dogmatic approach to the status of women, it is argued that different institutions retain strongholds over policymaking in these domains, prohibiting a joined-up approach. This has served to perpetuate harmful and negative stereotyping of women's issues and create countless conundrums when the activities of women fall into more than one policy category.

Autor

lt;span>Sarah Cooper is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Exeter.

Inhalt

Acknowledgements / List of Abbreviations / 1. Analysing the Status of Women in UK Policymaking: How Do Institutions Matter? / 2. Hanging onto the Old: Path Dependency in UK Abortion Regulation / 3. Balancing Protection and Prosecution? The Rationality of UK Prostitution Legislation / 4. Demanding a ‘Proper Victim’: The Culture of Rape Policy in the UK / 5. Welcoming Public Debate: Developing the Regulation of Pornography through Open Discussion / 6: Conclusion: Harmful Stereotyping and Institutional Stronghold in the Regulation of Women’s Issues / Bibliography / Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.2.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Feminism • Gender and Sexuality • Governance • Identity • Inequality • the State
• ISBN-10: 1-78348-186-2 / 1783481862
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78348-186-6 / 9781783481866