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REGULATING WOMEN
POLICYMAKING AND PRACTICE IN THE UK |
| By: |
Sarah Cooper |
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Hardback |
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| ISBN 10: |
1783481846 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781783481842 |
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| Publisher: |
ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD INTERNATIONAL |
| Pub. date: |
23 February, 2016 |
| Pages: |
218 |
| Description: |
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. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Rowman & Littlefield International |
| Returns: |
Returnable |