This study aims to explore how sex work is presented as a problem in relation to gender in the state’s public investigations. Using Carol Bacchis (2009) discourse analysis method What's the problem represented to be?, two public investigations where analyzed. Report könshandel (SOU 1995:15) where an important step in the process of making it illegal to buy sex but legal to sell in Sweden, and the second public investigation is an evaluation (SOU 2010:49) of how the law has worked in practice since it was implemented. The study shows that the problem with sex work is presented as a question about equality, where sex work represent inequality. Throughout the investigations the representation of the ‘problem’ is directly affected by the gender of the person described. And the main result shows that sex work as a problem is focused on descriptions of the female sex worker and mens violence against women. Which has affected the way we work with people in sex work, the earlier language that focus on women have influenced social work today and how the resources are distributed. Males and transgendered people have been set aside in working with people in sex work.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:su-225854 |
| Date | January 2022 |
| Creators | Nordin, Cim |
| Publisher | Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för socialt arbete |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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