Sveriges prostitutionspolitik - har könet betydelse? : En diskursanalytisk studie av den svenska prostitutionspolitiken

Sammanfattning: This paper is a discourse analytic policy study with the intention to investigate the swedish government's policy action plan against prostitution and trafficking for sexual purposes. The document is called Handlingsplan mot prostitution och människohandel för sexuella ändamål. The purpose of the study is to investigate whether there is a feminist gender understanding taking place in the action plan. This is made by both see how the problem of prostitution is produced partly by examining whether there is a gender-based power analysis in action. The research questions of this study are: What is considered being the problem with prostitution and trafficking fosexual purposes? Is there a feminist gender understandning in the government's prostitution politics? To answer these questions I use Carol Bacchis method Whats the problem represented to be? And the material being used is the government's actionplan. Previous research and feminist theory has been the basis for the analysis of the action plan. My results shows that the problem of prostitution is represented in three different ways; an equality problem, a problem for exposed groups in the community and for last crime problems. My analysis also suggests a lack of understanding of gender power in the government's prostitution policy.