Gendered Inequality and Legal Consciousness: How Law Regulates Women’s Involvement in and Their Exit From Indoor Prostitution (Sustainable Development Goals Series)

This book examines the role of law in women’s involvement in and their exit from indoor prostitution.It examines the historic development of the existing legal framework and the resulting polarised contemporary legal and policy framings of prostitution which have produced and reproduce two distinct ‘ideal’ legal subjects - the vulnerable victim and public nuisance that is the street prostitute and the agentic, entrepreneurial indoor prostitute. Addressing the origins of these two subjects of prostitution and examining the discursive frameworks which have led to their solidification in law, this book aims to provide a robust, methodologically and theoretically sound evaluation of the law’s construction of indoor prostitution and the contested legal frameworks which emerged in response.Analysing empirical data from 53 women, 8 practitioners and three case studies of the law in action, and adopting a critical realist methodology, this book provides a detailed socio-legal examination of th