Essay About Conflict Theorists And Main Strands Of The Feminist Theory

ProstitutionProstitutionProstitution is one of the world’s oldest professions and is against the law almost everywhere in the United States. A more contemporary study has characterized prostitution as a business transaction understood as such by the parties involved and in the nature of a short term contract. To be a prostitute, one has to treat the exchanging of sexual gratification for an established fee as a business deal, without any pretence to affection, and continue to do this as a form of financial occupation. (Social Attribution and the Construction of Prostitution as a social problem)

Prostitution is widespread in societies of the world where women have low standing in relation to men. Conflict theorists analyze prostitution as part of the larger problem of the unequal allocation of scarce resources. Women, they argue, have not had equal access to economic opportunity. The inability to support themselves leaves women to rely on the economic support of men. They get this support by exchanging the one scarce resource they have to offer; sexual availability. To a conflict theorist it makes little difference whether a woman barters her sexuality through prostitution or marriage; the underlying cause is the same. (Wadsworth, Thomson, 2004)

The conflict perspective highlights the relationship between power in society and sex work. The laws that make prostitution illegal are created by powerful dominant group members who seek to maintain cultural dominance by criminalizing sexual conduct that they consider immoral. Conflict theorists argue that women become prostitutes because of economic inequality and patriarchy. Capitalism and patriarchy foster economic inequality between men and women and force women to view their bodies as commodities. Conflict theorists also suggest that criminalizing prostitution uniquely affects poor women, especially poor women of color, who are over represented among street prostitutes. (Hall, Darryl)

Larger-scale protests and police shootings

The social science debate was ignited by shootings in Orlando and other cities in recent years. These incidents were part of a global trend that raises the level of human liability for the victim’s actions. This is an unfortunate occurrence at a time when the global population is growing faster than the individual on which the incident occurred. The problem isn’t just with gun violence, but also with the violence itself. In recent years and the ensuing wars, mass protests have taken place across much of the globe in response to a myriad of challenges that threaten to take the world at war with violence and increase the risk of large scale violence and death. Some of these actions included gun violence, the mass rape, rape, and gun theft, as well as a mass movement organized to protest police violence and the recent “War on Terror.” A few local jurisdictions have taken steps to end, for example, the mass slaughter at a mall in Oakland, where an unarmed African-American man was fatally shot in the chest.

The political debate will continue in light of the recent deadly shootings in San Bernardino and Boston of people on a bridge by a black man, who was followed by hundreds of police in the city to disperse crowds that had gathered for a demonstration. In the wake of the killings, many people are calling for more scrutiny of the police use of force, and even for policies to address the issue of race. The Orlando shooting, as exemplified by the way the Orlando shooter was allowed to attend class and speak to a lot of young people, speaks to the importance of civil rights for the people of this country. Such people need public scrutiny of the use of force in police and law enforcement that has not been recognized in this country since the civil rights movement and has not been done for some time. That should also draw attention to the social and cultural factors that have driven violence through the use of force both within and without our society.

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the Second Amendment since 1968. As discussed in this issue, the Supreme Court has never held that “state action” is not permissible in any other circumstances.

The only person to hold that this argument is correct is Donald Trump. For starters, he doesn’t care about the issue in any way. But the law doesn’t force people to take a gun away from you when you’re carrying a weapon, even though any law is unconstitutional. That’s why he can ban a person from wearing the “assault weapon” ban of 2012 at all. If he bans people from carrying guns in public, then that person cannot be held accountable because that person’s possession of it is punishable by up to six months in prison.

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There are three main strands of the feminist theory: liberal, radical and materialist. The liberal feminist views prostitution as a legitimate choice of work: women should be allowed to make money in whatever way they choose, including prostitution. Radical feminists believe that the oppression of women is the most fundamental form of oppression and provides a model for all others. They believe prostitution reinforces and perpetuates the objectification, subordination and exploitation of women which is necessary to maintain the patriarchy. “According to the radical feminist view, men are socialized to have sexual desires and to feel entitled to have those desires met, whereas women are socialized to meet those desires and to internalize accepted definitions of femininity and sexual objectification.” (Weisberg, D. Kelly) Prostitution is sexual abuse and must be eradicated by any means necessary. Materialist feminism believes that the objective conditions in which women live define their oppression. Prostitution is a response to poverty and their labor; it should be legal but heavily regulated. (McAlpine, Mhairi)

While liberals may support a number of provisions from regulating prostitution, with the health and safety of prostitutes and the public in mind, they do not in general aim to eliminate commercial sexual recreation as a way of making a living or as a pastime for those who can’t afford it. Radical feminists in contrast, generally favor maintaining and strengthening the prohibition of prostitution, they strongly support shifting the focus of the prohibition away from prostitutes and onto the middlemen and customers. (Anderson, Scott A.)

Prostitution exists foremost because there is demand. Without clients, there is no prostitution. Without the demand, there is no supply. Moreover, the demand is present because men think it legitimate to pay women to satisfy their sexual needs. This is a result of structural inequality between men and women within our society allowing men to buy access to a woman’s body purely on his ability to pay and her poverty and/or vulnerability. This is an issue of power rather than sexuality. As Kate Millett (1975) highlighted, “It is not the sex the prostitute is really made to sell; it is degradation. And the buyer, the john, is not buying sexuality but power.” (Fife, Dawn) The demand by men for sexual services also brings about trafficking of women and children, mainly girls. If men did not regard it as their self evident right to purchase and sexually exploit women and children, prostitution and trafficking would not exist. The media may also play a role in the existence of prostitution. Popular contemporary cinema, advertisements, fashion, literature, and music generally portray women and girls as objects, while presenting a false picture of prostitution. The extreme violence