The abject-other in the abolitionist feminist discourse on prostitution
This work analyses the abolitionist feminist discourse on prostitution as elaborated by second-wave feminists in the last decades of the twentieth century. Its aim is to deconstruct such a discourse, to locate the point at which its system of values is transgressed and its coherence collapses. While...
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| Tipo de recurso: | tesis doctoral |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2022 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | CBUC, CESCA |
| Repositorio: | TDR. Tesis Doctorales en Red |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:www.tdx.cat:10803/673892 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10803/673892 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Prostitution Prostitución 34 |
| Sumario: | This work analyses the abolitionist feminist discourse on prostitution as elaborated by second-wave feminists in the last decades of the twentieth century. Its aim is to deconstruct such a discourse, to locate the point at which its system of values is transgressed and its coherence collapses. While abolitionist feminism embodies a claim to be in strict opposition to the patriarchal discourse on prostitution, this work attempts to demonstrate that is not the case by uncovering the points at which both discourses overlap. Patriarchal notions of female sexuality which culminate in the essentialization of the “good woman” image of femininity ultimately lead to the positioning and representation of the (consenting) prostitute as abject-Other in abolitionist feminism. As Other to the norm in both its descriptive and normative senses, the (consenting) prostitute is endowed with the meaning of abject thus being abjected from an Us that does not include her. |
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