Regulating Women

Policymaking and Practice in the UK

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Sarah Cooper

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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.

Author Biography:

Sarah Cooper is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Exeter.

Release date NZ

February 17th, 2016

Author

Sarah Cooper

Audience

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Pages

218

Dimensions

151x229x17

ISBN-13

9781783481859

Product ID

23075570

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