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Regulating Women: Policymaking and Practice in the UK

Regulating Women: Policymaking and Practice in the UK

Cooper, Sarah

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General Gender StudiesGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1783481854
ISBN13: 9781783481859
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Feb 17 2016
Pages: 218
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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.

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