Shameful Separations and Embarrassing Proximities: Affective Constructions of Political (Il)Legitimacy in the Danish Debate on Prostitution |
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| Authors: | Maja Bissenbakker Frederiksen |
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| Institution: | 1. Centre for Gender Studies, Department of Scandinavian Studies and Linguistics , University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen , Denmark maja@hum.ku.dk |
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| Abstract: | Political documents on gender equality in the Nordic countries contain interesting systematic variations in justification strategies and discursive commitments at different political-rhetorical levels. This is particularly apparent when political texts move from general gender equality to arguing about specific issues. This article looks at the variety of "versions" of gender equality that appear when the discourses of gender and the conceptualisations of power that inform Swedish political party documents are scrutinised. Consequences of different versions of gender equality for rhetoric about policy measures and rhetorical uses of "uniformity" versus "heterogeneity" are also discussed. |
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