Sarah Cooper

Regulating Women (eBook, ePUB)

Policymaking and Practice in the UK

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783481866
• Artikelnr.: 44991217

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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