McGarry, Kathryn and FitzGerald, Sharron A (2019) The politics of injustice: Sexworking women, feminism and criminalizing sex purchase in Ireland. Criminology & Criminal Justice, 19 (1). pp. 62-79. ISSN 1748-8958
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Abstract
This article interrogates the discursive framing of recent law and policy debates on criminalizing
sex purchase in Ireland and the implications this has for sex workers’ political voice. Drawing on
Nancy Fraser’s work on the political dimensions of justice, we look at how Irish neo-abolitionists,
through their Turn Off the Red Light (TORL) campaign, map and delimit access to political space and
consequently misframe, misrecognize and misrepresent the ‘problem’ of sex work and sex-working
women. We employ the methodological framework suggested by Carol Bacchi’s What’s the Problem
Represented to Be (WPR) approach to explore how TORL campaigners exercise and manage framesetting in law and policy contexts to deny all ‘other’ voices parity of participation in political space.
We argue these misframing strategies reflect meta-political injustices of misrepresentation.
Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | Discourse; justice; law; policy; radical feminism; sex work; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Applied Social Studies |
Item ID: | 13135 |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/1748895817743285 |
Depositing User: | Kathryn McGarry |
Date Deposited: | 22 Jul 2020 14:35 |
Journal or Publication Title: | Criminology & Criminal Justice |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Refereed: | Yes |
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URI: | https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/13135 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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