This article examines the public discourses involved in United Kingdom debates about prostitution and the trafficking of women. We take two particular debates as our focus: the kerb crawling debates from the late 1970s to the present and more recent trafficking debate.
This book offers new insights into social science debates by analyzing feminist theories of the state. It argues that we need feminist tools for analyzing states and focuses on two debates, domestic violence and childcare, as areas where feminists discursively construct the state. These themes are developed within a comparative perspective. Focusing on devolution in Scotland and the European Union, the book further explores how feminist state theories conceive multi-level governance.