Criminalising the Client

Institutional Change, Gendered Ideas and Feminist Strategies

Josefina Erikson author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield International

Published:21st Jun '17

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In 1998, Sweden was the first country in the world to criminalise the purchase of sexual services, but not the sale of sex. The law represented a new prostitution regime that problematised power relations in prostitution as inherently gendered and hierarchical and made the male buyers of sexual services responsible for the act of prostitution. The Swedish case is critically important to the study of gendered institutional change and has been of empirical interest and global debate. Using the feminist institutionalism approach to the analysis, this study offers new insights to the Swedish case and provides a new analytical framework for micro-level analysis of institutional change that addresses the struggle for meaning, institutionalization of new gendered ideas, and the (strategic) actions of feminist actors.

Asking how Sweden came to be the first country in the world to criminalize the purchase of sexual services, this book employs ‘dynamic frame analysis’ to provide a deep exploration of parliamentary dynamics – offering a convincing alternative account highlighting the gradual changes in gendered institutions, culminating in the institutionalization of a radically new gender regime to understand and tackle prostitution. -- Mona Lena Krook, Associate Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University, USA

ISBN: 9781786600059

Dimensions: 239mm x 159mm x 21mm

Weight: 485g

194 pages