AIDS and the Sexuality of Law: Ironic Jurisprudence

✍ Scribed by Joe Rollins

• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 255
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

AIDS and the Sexuality of Law maps the relationship between sexuality and the law and science of AIDS as it evolved between 1985 and 1995. The book undertakes a close reading of case opinions from the federal appellate courts and argues that these scripts can be read productively through the interpretive lens of irony. Although these texts rely literally on the language of science to construct an appearance of managing HIV transmission risks, they depend figuratively on a sexual epistemology that relegates important fragments of information to the realm of the unknowable. Court cases examined in the book deal with adult businesses, the health care industry, and prisons.

✦ Table of Contents

COVER......Page 1
CONTENTS......Page 8
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 10
INTRODUCTION......Page 12
CHAPTER ONE: Ironic Jurisprudence......Page 30
CHAPTER TWO: The Implicated Homosexual......Page 64
CHAPTER THREE: Secondary Effects......Page 94
CHAPTER FOUR: Unusually Indifferent Cruelty......Page 116
CHAPTER FIVE: Impossible Burdens......Page 150
CHAPTER SIX: Valuable Uncertainties......Page 174
NOTES......Page 194
REFERENCES......Page 226
CASES......Page 240
C......Page 248
E......Page 249
H......Page 250
I......Page 251
P......Page 252
S......Page 253
U......Page 254
Y......Page 255