Teaching Equality? “John Schools,” Gender, and Institutional Reform
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6356161 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Samantha Majic (0000-0002-5956-6506, City University of New York, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 5-30 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Polity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3497 • E-ISSN: 1744-1684 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1057/pol.2013.37 |
| OpenAlex | W2328058463 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 33 |
Employing feminist institutionalism as an analytic framework, this article considers the First Offender Prostitution Program in San Francisco. The program allows men arrested for their first prostitution offense to pay a fine and to attend a day of classes about the consequences of participation in prostitution, in lieu of prosecution. Other jurisdictions in the United States and internationally have replicated First Offender, and supporters (particularly feminists) praise it for promoting gender equality. However, the findings in this article suggest that First Offender both replicates and contests competing and often contradictory gender ideologies and patterns of power. Specifically, the program's enrollment practices and most of its content imply that men who purchase sexual services are rational sexual agents, while women who sell these services are (mainly) victims. Presentations by former sex workers complicate the program's lessons about gender by demonstrating women's capacity to exercise agency in sex work. The program thus illustrates the contested and contradictory ideological dynamics of gender-sensitive institutional reforms
Agency (philosophy · Criminology · Ideology · Paternalism · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Praise · Social science · Sociology · Work (physics · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Psychology · Public Administration · Sex work and related issues · Social Psychology
The Other Side of the Sex Work Equation
Implementing ‘new’ norms? Examining ‘john school’ policies in the United States
Reducing sex work by targeting ‘vulnerable’ sex workers
Participating, Observing, Publishing
Making links between sex work, gender and victimisation
A vengeful education? urban revanchism, sex work and the penal politics of john schools
Power, exclusion and empowerment
Nested Newness, Institutional Innovation, and the Gendered Limits of Change
Political Conception
Targeted sympathy in “whore court
Governing Sex Work in the City
The Idea of Sex Work
Beyond 'Victim-Criminals
Institutionalism
How Institutions Evolve
John Court
Militarized Humanitarianism Meets Carceral Feminism
From Sex as Sin to Sex as Work
Informal Institutions and Comparative Politics
Running from the Rescuers
Research on Human Trafficking in North America
Flawed Theory and Method in Studies of Prostitution
Female Prostitution, Customers, and Violence
Prostitution
Regulating sex work in the EU
Dividing Social Citizenship by Gender
Conceptions of Space and Crime in the Punitive Neoliberal City
Revenge and Injustice in the Neoliberal City
Already Doin' It for Ourselves? Skeptical Notes on Feminism and Institutionalism
The Feminist Potential of Sociological Institutionalism
It Takes a State
New Institutionalism Through a Gender Lens
Challenging the Kerb Crawler Rehabilitation Programme
The New Institutionalism
The Meaning of the Purchase
The Social Construction of Sex Trafficking
Prostitutes' Rights in the United States
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,08 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |