Feminism, Prostitution and the State

The Politics of Neo-Abolitionism
Herausgeber: Ward, Eilis; Wylie, Gillian

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This edited volume focuses on charting the rise of neo-abolitionism and offering a critique of the idea, its logics and consequences.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 174
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 275g
• ISBN-13: 9780367221553
• ISBN-10: 0367221551
• Artikelnr.: 56926113

Autorenporträt

Gillian Wylie is Assistant Professor of International Peace Studies, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Eilís Ward is Lecturer in the School of Political Science and Sociology NUIG, Galway, Republic of Ireland.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Introducing Neo-abolitionism: Definition, Drivers and Debates
[Eilís Ward and Gillian Wylie]
Chapter 1: Neo-abolitionism and transnational advocacy networks:
globalizing an idea
[Gillian Wylie]
Chapter 2: From Contested to Consensus: Swedish Politics on Prostitution
and Trafficking
[Yvonne Swanström]
Chapter 3: The Netherlands: Analyzing shifts and continuities in the
governing of sexual labour
[Silke Heumann, Sara Vida Coumans, Tamar Shiboleth & Marieke Ridder]
Chapter 4: Strange Confluences: Radical feminism and evangelical
Christianity as drivers of US neo-abolitionism
[Crystal A. Jackson, Jennifer J. Reed and Barbara G. Brents]
Chapter 5: The Irish Parliament and Prostitution Law Reform: A
Neo-Abolitionism Shoe-in?
[Eilís Ward]
Chapter 6: Almost Abolitionism: The Peculiarities of Prostitution Policy in
England and Wales
[Anna Carline and Jane Scoular]
Chapter 7: Against the Trend: Resistance to Neo-abolitionism in Australian
Anti-trafficking Policy Debates
[Erin O'Brien]
Chapter 8: In search of a fair and free society: the regulation of sex work
in New Zealand
[Gillian Abel]
Conclusion: Carceral feminism, the state and the sex worker in a globalised
era. Whose Power?
[Eilís Ward and Gillian Wylie]