LY101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Materiel, Abortion-Rights Movements, Equal Opportunity
Document Summary
Women"s bodies and the law: the debate on sex workers" rights. And now: bawdy house sometimes referred to a brothel, changed in 2014, because of the bedford case. Churches: capitalism, the drive for labour discipline, and the fear of the masses. Importance of the family, and women"s role in it, in the eyes of employers and the. Internalizing disciplinary expectations: state"s and reformers" fear of bodies and bodily desires. Bodies for labour and reproducing: your body could be used for something other than labour. Good, rational, normal, citizen controls bodily desires: criminalized sex work (and sex) Vagrancy law and sex work, women without a male escort like a husband or father was deemed as a potential sex worker and threat. Feminist theory and sex work: different feminist theories are critical of the use of law to control women"s bodies, but not all feminist theories have the same view on sex work.
