Homosexuality, Law and Resistance

ISBN-13: 9780415249027 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 240 str.

Derek McGhee;McGhee Derek

Opis

This book explores contemporary social theory and developments in the study of sexuality through the analysis of law and its practices. Each chapter explores the power of discourse in law in relation to homosexualities, while simultaneously examining how homosexuals resist and disrupt these legal discourses. This book should be of interest to students and academics working in the fields of sociology, cultural studies, law, politics, gender studies and sexuality.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Military Men: Queering the Homosocial Habitus 2. Authenticity, Evasion and the Unknowable Homosexual Refugee 3. Persecution and Immutability: Homosexual Refugees 4. The Fear of 'Homosexual Spread': Legislating the Heteronormativity of Protection 1957-2000.Conclusion

O autorze

McGhee, Derek