Feminist and queer legal theory : intimate encounters, uncomfortable conversations /

Feminist and queer legal theory : intimate encounters, uncomfortable conversations / edited by Martha Albertson Fineman, Jack E. Jackson and Adam P. Romero.

This book brings together voices in feminist and queer theory to create an interdisciplinary dialogue that will define the terms of the debates between and within these theoretical frameworks for the next decade. Covering interrelated issues such as gender, identity, intimacy, and privacy, the autho...

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Other Authors: Fineman, Martha., Jackson, Jack E., Romero, Adam P.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham, UK : Ashgate, 2009.
Subjects:
Feminist jurisprudence.
Feminist theory.
Gay people > Legal status, laws, etc.
Gender identity > Law and legislation.
Queer theory.
Women > Legal status, laws, etc.
Theories.
Gay men.
Sexual minorities.
Men.
LGBTQ+ people.
Legal status.
Gender identity.
Gender.
Women.
Table of Contents:
  • Queer theory by men / Janet Halley
  • Theorizing yes : an essay on feminism, law, and desire / Katherine Franke
  • The sexual family / Martha A. Fineman
  • The sanitized workplace revisited / Vicki Schultz
  • Queering sexual orientation : a call for theory as praxis / Francisco Valdes
  • How queer theory makes neoliberalism sexy / Martha McCluskey
  • Proper objects, different subjects and juridical horizons in radical legal critique / Tucker Culbertson and Jack Jackson
  • A few words in favor of cultivating an incest taboo in the workplace / Mary Ann Case
  • Care and feminists / Mary Becker
  • Methodological descriptions : "feminist" and "queer" legal theories / Adam P. Romero
  • The epistemic contract of bisexual erasure / Kenji Yoshino
  • Black rights, gay rights, civil rights / Devon Carbado
  • The transgender rights imaginary / Paisley Currah
  • Compulsory monogamy and polyamorous existence / Elizabeth Emens
  • This is not your father's autonomy : lesbian and gay rights from a feminist and relational perspective / Carlos Ball
  • Compulsory matrimony / Ruthann Robson
  • From paternafare to marriage promotion : sexual regulation and welfare reform / Anna Marie Smith
  • Transgressive caretaking / Laura Kessler
  • The troubled relationship of feminist and queer legal theory to strategic essentialism : theory/praxis, queer porn, and Canadian anti-discrimination law /Lara Karaian
  • Poststructuralism on trial / Ann Scales
  • Queer victory, feminist defeat? : sodomy and rape in Lawrence v. Texas / Lynne Huffer.

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