Dr Pat Jones patricia.jones@durham.ac.uk
Honorary Fellow
Catholic social teaching and the peripheries: the case for addressing prostitution
Jones, Patricia
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Abstract
Catholic social teaching (CST) has shown little interest in structural and social forces that impact negatively on the dignity and flourishing of women. Such inattention diminishes CST's credibility and neglects its liberative potential. This article examines an area of structural violence against women, the social reality of prostitution, to illuminate the imperative to expand normative CST to address specific experiences of women. Given the inadequacy of the Catechism's treatment of prostitution as an area of personal moral failing, a reading which fails to understand how cultural and legislative structures bear down on women's freedom and agency, a task for CST emerges. When CST principles are brought into dialogue with empirical attention to women's experience of prostitution, the tradition stands in solidarity with those who inhabit an existential and social periphery. The article argues that CST perspectives should nudge the Catholic Church towards proposing an abolitionist ethic in relation to prostitution.
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Jones, P. (2023). Catholic social teaching and the peripheries: the case for addressing prostitution. International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church, 23(1), 3-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/1474225x.2022.2150459
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Nov 18, 2022 |
Online Publication Date | Dec 9, 2022 |
Publication Date | 2023 |
Deposit Date | Jan 19, 2023 |
Publicly Available Date | May 24, 2023 |
Journal | International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church |
Print ISSN | 1474-225X |
Electronic ISSN | 1747-0234 |
Publisher | Taylor and Francis Group |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 23 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 3-17 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/1474225x.2022.2150459 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1185036 |
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