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Sex-Work, Prostitution and Policy

A Feminist Discourse Analysis

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Authors:
  1. Rebecca MF Hewer

    1. School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

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  • Discusses key narratives contributing to Westminster sex-work/prostitution policy debates.
  • Scrutinises policy narratives (and their production) in dialogue with critical social theory.
  • Challenges us to ‘think differently’ about policy debates and a progressive politics of sex-work/prostitution

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Science, Knowledge and Policy (SKP)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Rebecca MF Hewer
    Pages 1-59

  3. Vulnerability: Floating Signifiers and Transcending Polarities

    • Rebecca MF Hewer
    Pages 61-95

  4. Subjectivity, Responsibility, and Choice

    • Rebecca MF Hewer
    Pages 97-136

  5. The Multiple Logics of Gender

    • Rebecca MF Hewer
    Pages 137-174

  6. The Language of Violence

    • Rebecca MF Hewer
    Pages 175-253

  7. Concluding Thoughts

    • Rebecca MF Hewer
    Pages 255-272

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 273-292
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About this book

The topic of sex-work/prostitution has long generated contentious debate, particularly within the broad church of feminism. This antagonism is reflected in UK policy debates, which are further complicated by their enactment in spaces of neoliberal hegemony. 


This book analyses the plurality of narratives which contribute to Westminster sex-work/prostitution policy debates and subsequently seeks to situate them within the social and political conditions of their production. Hewer illustrates that contemporary sex-work/prostitution debates are constituted through a complex entanglement of ideologically hybrid perspectives, which variously challenge and ingrain extant relations of power. Moreover, by drawing on a range of feminist and other critical social theories, Hewer offers a way to think differently about both sex-work/prostitution debates and sex-work/prostitution itself. 


The book will be a valuable resource for researchers and students from across the social sciences with an interest in the language used to talk about sex-work and prostitution in policy debates.










Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

    Rebecca MF Hewer

About the author

Rebecca MF Hewer is a Chancellor’s Fellow in Sociology in the School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, UK. Her research explores the socio-legal regulation of (women’s) bodies, policy, the politics of knowledge production, and discourse.

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