The Subject of Prostitution: Sex Work, Law and Social Theory

ISBN-13: 9780415792271 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 190 str.

Jane Scoular

Opis

The Subject of Prostitution offers a distinctive analysis of the links between prostitution and social theory in order to advance a critical analysis of the relationship of law to sex work. The book analyzes contemporary citizenship discourse and the law’s ability to meet the competing demands of empowerment by sexworkers and protection by radical feminists who view prostitution as the epitome of patriarchal sexual and economic relations. Its central focus is the role of law in both structuring and responding to the ‘problem of prostitution’.

Spis treści

1. The Subject of Prostitution: An Introduction,  2. The prostitute subject as a metaphor of modernity: from sin to social problem  3. The Object of prostitute and the pathological 'punter': Problematising the purchase of sex in the 21st Century  4. The Prostitute as a Right-Bearing Subject  5. Reconstructing the Subject of Prostitution  6. Conclusion: Moving Beyond the Subject of Prostitution

O autorze

Jane Scoular is a Professor in Law,based at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland, UK.