Sexuality and Identity

ISBN-13: 9781138620520 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 614 str.

Leslie J. Moran

Opis

Sexuality is a relatively new part of the human sciences, particularly law and society scholarship. It is now a central category through which we understand ourselves as individuals and members of society. This text offers a collection of essays reflecting the horizons and methodologies of law and society scholarship on sexual and identity in law.

Spis treści

Contents: Series preface; Introduction. Part I Topics: Queer property, queer persons: self-ownership and beyond, Margaret Davies; Refashioning the unfashionable: claiming lesbian identities in the legal context, Diana Majury; Zimbabwean law and the production of a white man's disease, Oliver Phillips; Transgender jurisprudence and the spectre of homosexuality, Andrew Sharpe; Returning to the scene of the crime: uses of trial dossiers on consensual male homosexuality for urban research, with examples from 20th century British Columbia, Gordon Brent Ingram; The cult of the clitoris: anatomy of a national scandal, Jodie Medd . Part II Locating Sexual Identity in Law: Policing and the state, AnnJanette Rosga; 'A stranger to its laws': sovereign bodies, global sexualities, and transnational citizens, Carl F. Stychin; After Dunblane: crime, corporeality and the (hetero-)sexing of the bodies of men, Richard Collier; Violence and the law: the case of sado-masochism, Leslie J. Moran; Sexual preference, crime and punishment, Diana Fishbein; Governing bodies, creating gay spaces: policing and security issues in 'gay' downtown Toronto, Mariana Valverde and Miomir Cirak; A legal perspective on sexuality and organization: a lesbian and gay case study, Paul Skidmore; Some reflections on the study of sexual orientation bias in the legal profession, William B. Rubenstein; Measuring gay populations and antigay hate crime, Donald P. Green, Dara Z Strolovitch, Janelle S. Wong and Robert W. Bailey; Not our kind of hate crime, Gail Mason; Understanding systemic violence: homophobic attacks in Johannesburg and its surroundings, Graeme Reid and Teresa Dirsuweit; Family law and sexuality: feminist engagements, Susan B. Boyd; Our children: kids of queer parents and kids who are queer: looking at sexual minority rights from a different perspective, Ruthann Robson; Same-sex marriage revived: feminist critique and legal strategy, Rosemary Auchmuty; From butch to butcher's knife: film, crime and

O autorze

Moran, Leslie J.