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Regulating Women
Policymaking and Practice in the UK|
48,99 € |
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| Verlag: | Rowman & Littlefield International |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 17.02.2016 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781783481866 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 224 |
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<span><span>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. </span></span>
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<span><span>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. </span></span>
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<span><span>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. </span></span>
<span><span>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.</span></span>
<span><span>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</span></span>
<span><span>Sarah Cooper</span><span> is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Exeter.</span></span>
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