RT Article
T1 The politics of injustice: Sex-working women, feminism and criminalizing sex purchase in Ireland
JF Criminology & criminal justice
VO 19
IS 1
SP 62
OP 79
A1 McGarry, Kathryn
A2 FitzGerald, Sharron A.
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1741502675
AB 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 frame-setting 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.
K1 Discourse
K1 Law
K1 Policy
K1 Radical feminism
K1 Sex work
DO 10.1177/1748895817743285