Queer Theory: Law, Culture, Empire

ISBN-13: 9780415572286 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 222 str.

Kim Brooks;Robert Leckey

Opis

Queer Theory: Law, Culture, Empire uses queer theory to examine the complex interactions of law, culture, and empire. Building on recent work on empire, and taking contextual, socio-legal, comparative, and interdisciplinary approaches, it studies how activists and scholars engaged in queer theory projects can unwittingly advance imperial projects and how queer theory can itself show imperial ambitions. The authors - from five continents - delve into examples drawn from Bollywood cinema to California's 2008 marriage referendum. The chapters view a wide range of texts - from cultural productions to laws and judgments - as regulatory forces requiring scrutiny from outside Western, heterosexual privilege. This innovative collection goes beyond earlier queer legal work, engaging with recent developments, featuring case studies from India, South Africa, the US, Australasia, Eastern Europe, and embracing the frames offered by different disciplinary lenses. Queer Theory: Law, Culture, Empire will be of particular interest to students and researchers in the fields of socio-legal studies, comparative law, law and gender/sexuality, and law and culture.

Queer Theory: Law, Culture Empire takes up the instability of the label 'queer' in order to consider what queer theory can bring to an exploration of the confines and openings provided by law, culture, and empire. Remaining true to the contingencies of queerness and queer theory more generally, it is the blurred boundaries between law, culture, and empire that are elicited and addressed here, as queer theory is brought to bear on the legal themes according to which the book is organised. The contributors to Part I of this collection, on 'constitution', mine the tensions surrounding the issue of queerness and normality. In Part II, on 'representation', the concern is with the complex ways queerness is seen and performed. Part III, on 'regulation', addresses three settings – assisted reproduction, polygamy, and same-sex marriage – in order to examine the politics of queer claims. Finally, 'exclusion' provides the focus of Part IV, in its consideration of foreignness, a long-standing preoccupation of queer theorists.

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Introduction, Robert Leckey and Kim Brooks  Part 1: Constitution  Chapter 2. Queer Theory, Neoliberalism and Urban Governance, Jon Binnie  Chapter 3. Regulating ‘Perversion’: The Role of Tolerance in De-Radicalizing the Rights Claims of Sexual Subalterns, Ratna Kapur  Part 2: Representation  Chapter 4. Cinema of Queer Desires: Bombay Cinema and Emergent Sexualities, Shohini Ghosh  Chapter 5. Post-Apartheid Fraternity, Post-Apartheid Democracy, Post-Apartheid Sexuality: Queer Reflections on Jane Alexander’s 'Butcher Boys', Jaco Barnard-Naudé  Chapter 6. The Judicial Virtue of Sexuality, Leslie J. Moran  Part 3: Regulation  Chapter 7. Reproductive Outsiders – The Perils and Disruptive Potential of Reproductive Coalitions, Jenni Millbank  Chapter 8. Queer/Religious Potentials in US Same-Sex Marriage Debates, Jeffrey A. Redding  Chapter 9. What’s Queer about Polygamy?, Margaret Denike  Part 4: Exclusion  Chapter 10. An ‘Imperial’ Strategy? The Use of Comparative and International Law in Arguments about LGBT Rights, Nicholas Bamforth  Chapter 11. Reproducing Empire in Same Sex Relationship Recognition and Immigration Law Reform, Nan Seuffert  Chapter 12. UnSettled, Ruthann Robson

O autorze

Robert Leckey is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law at McGill University, where he teaches and researches in constitutional law, family law, and comparative law. He is the author of Contextual Subjects: Family, State, and Relational Theory (2008).

Kim Brooks is Associate Professor and the H. Heward Stikeman Chair in the Law of Taxation in the Faculty of Law at McGill University. She is the editor of Justice Bertha Wilson: One Woman's Difference (2009).