Endowed: Regulating the Male Sexed Body

ISBN-13: 9780415950619 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 208 str.

Michael Thomson

Opis

Spanning topics such as male circumcision and the regulation of state access to Viagra, this book uncovers recurring motifs that define masculinity and the male body in the legal imagination. It also engages with questions regarding the relationship betwee

Spis treści

1. Masculinity, Reproductivity and Law  2. Short Changed?: The Law and Ethics of Male Circumcision  3. Reproductivity, the Workplace and the Gendering of the Body (Politic)  4. Viagra Nation: Sex and Prescribing Familial Masculinity  5. Regulating (for) Sperm Donor Identity  6. A Question of Sex?: Sport, the Healthy Body and Masculinity  7. Conclusions: Perverse Fantasy and Bodily Possibility

O autorze

Michael Thomson is Professor of Law, Culture, and Society in the School of Law, Keele University.