Law and Sexuality

✍ Scribed by Carl Stychin, Editors,Didi Herman, Carl F. Stychin, Didi Herman

• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 294
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Law/Gay and Lesbian Studies

A unique, international look at the intersection of law and the most personal of rights.

Law and Sexuality brings together leading scholars from four continents to consider topics ranging from Tasmanian sodomy laws to the South African constitution, from domestic partnership in Hawaii to London's urban geographies. The authors take on some of the most pressing issues in social and legal theory and practice today: crime and criminality, partnership and families, nationality and postcolonialism, the politics of rights struggles, and globalization. Encompassing a broad spectrum of perspectives, from literary analysis and postcolonial studies to feminist, queer, and critical race theory, their analysis maps the current state of the global intersections between law and sexuality and social change.

Contributors: Heather Brook, Flinders U, South Australia; Richard Collier, U of Newcastle Upon Tyne; Derek Dalton; Pierre de Vos, U of Western Cape, South Africa; Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller, U of Hawai'i at Manoa; Patrick Hanafin, U of London; Emma Henderson, La Trobe U; Adrian Howe, La Trobe U; Rebecca Johnson, U of New Brunswick; Thomas Kuttner, U of New Brunswick; Derek McGhee, Southampton University; Leslie J. Moran, Flinders U, South Australia; Wayne Morgan, U of Melbourne, Australia; Oliver Phillips, Keele U; Jennifer Spruill; and Claire Young, U of British Columbia.

Carl Stychin is professor of law and social theory at the University of Reading, UK. Didi Herman is professor of law and social change at the University of Keele, UK.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 8
PART ONE: NATIONALITY AND POSTCOLONIALITY......Page 12
1 A POST-WITH/OUT A PAST?: Sexual orientation and the post-colonial 'moment' in South Africa......Page 14
2 CONSTITUTING THE GLOBAL GAY: Issues of individual subjectivity and sexuality in southern Africa......Page 28
3 'I'D RATHER BE AN OUTLAW': Identity, activism, and decriminalization in Tasmania......Page 46
4 REWRITING DESIRE: The construction of sexual identity in literary and legal discourse in post-colonial Ireland......Page 62
PART TWO: SEXUALITY AND CRIMINALITY......Page 78
5 THE DEVIANT GAZE: Imagining the homosexual as criminal through cinematic and legal discourses......Page 80
6 HOMOSEXUAL ADVANCES IN LAW: Murderous excuse, pluralized ignorance and the privilege of unknowing......Page 95
7 PERVERTING LONDON: The cartographic practices of law......Page 111
PART THREE: PARTNERS AND FAMILIES......Page 122
8 'MAKING A MOCKERY OF MARRIAGE': Domestic partnership and equal rights in Hawai'i......Page 124
9 HOW TO DO THINGS WITH SEX......Page 143
10 'AGING AND RETIREMENT ARE NOT UNIQUE TO HETEROSEXUALS'......Page 162
11 STRAIGHT FAMILIES, QUEER LIVES?: Heterosexual(izing) family law......Page 175
PART FOUR: THE POLITICS OF RIGHTS......Page 190
12 TREADING ON DICEY GROUND: Citizenship and the politics of the rule of law......Page 192
13 THE CONSTITUTION MADE US QUEER: The sexual orientation clause in the South African Constitution and the emergence of gay and lesbian identity......Page 205
14 QUEERING INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW......Page 219
Concluding Thoughts......Page 237
Notes......Page 238
References......Page 275
About the Editors......Page 283
About the Contributors......Page 284
Acknowledgements......Page 287
C......Page 288
E......Page 289
H......Page 290
M......Page 291
R......Page 292
U......Page 293
Z......Page 294