Sister Wives, Surrogates and s** Workers: Outla, Angela-Campbell..

Name: Sister Wives, Surrogates and s** Workers: Outla, Angela-Campbell..
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

This book develops an analytical framework that aims to discern the meaning and value that women may ascribe to morally ambiguous practices. An analysis of law\u2019s approach to polygamy, surrogacy and sex work, particularly in Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia, provides a basis for evaluating the choice-coercion binary and for contemplating alternate modes for assessing, from a law and policy standpoint, the palatability of social practices that appear pernicious to women. > Did she choose that?\u2019 Or, more normatively, \u2019Why would she choose that?\u2019 This book critiques and offers an alternative to these questions, which have traditionally framed law and policy discussions circulating around controversial genderized practices. It examines the simplicity and incompleteness of choice-based rhetoric and of presumptions that women\u2019s conduct is shaped, in an absolute way, either by choice or by coercion. This book develops an analytical framework that aims to d.