The Queer Outside In Law

Author : Senthorun Raj,Peter Dunne
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030488307

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The Queer Outside in Law by Senthorun Raj,Peter Dunne Pdf

This book contributes to current debates about “queer outsides” and “queer outsiders” that emerge from tensions in legal reforms aimed at improving the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer people in the United Kingdom. LGBTIQ people in the UK have moved from being situated as “outlaws” – through prohibitions on homosexuality or cross-dressing – to respectable “in laws” – through the emerging acceptance of same-sex families and self-identified genders. From the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in the Sexual Offences Act 1967, to the provision of a bureaucratic mechanism to amend legal sex in the Gender Recognition Act 2004, bringing LGBTIQ people “inside” the law has prompted enormous activist and academic commentary on the desirability of inclusion-focused legal and social reforms. Canvassing an array of current socio-legal debates on colonialism, refugee law, legal gender recognition, intersex autonomy and transgender equality, the contributing authors explore “queer outsiders” who remain beyond the law’s reach and outline the ways in which these outsiders might seek to “come within” and/or “stay outside” law. Given its scope, this modern work will appeal to legal scholars, lawyers, and activists with an interest in gender, sex, sexuality, race, migration and human rights law.

Author : Robert Leckey,Kim Brooks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135147884

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Queer Theory: Law, Culture, Empire by Robert Leckey,Kim Brooks Pdf

Queer Theory: Law, Culture, Empire uses queer theory to examine the complex interactions of law, culture, and empire. Building on recent work on empire, and taking contextual, socio-legal, comparative, and interdisciplinary approaches, it studies how activists and scholars engaged in queer theory projects can unwittingly advance imperial projects and how queer theory can itself show imperial ambitions. The authors – from five continents – delve into examples drawn from Bollywood cinema to California’s 2008 marriage referendum. The chapters view a wide range of texts – from cultural productions to laws and judgments – as regulatory forces requiring scrutiny from outside Western, heterosexual privilege. This innovative collection goes beyond earlier queer legal work, engaging with recent developments, featuring case studies from India, South Africa, the US, Australasia, Eastern Europe, and embracing the frames offered by different disciplinary lenses. Queer Theory: Law, Culture, Empire will be of particular interest to students and researchers in the fields of socio-legal studies, comparative law, law and gender/sexuality, and law and culture.

Author : Martha Albertson Fineman,Jack E. Jackson,Adam P. Romero
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317135722

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Feminist and Queer Legal Theory by Martha Albertson Fineman,Jack E. Jackson,Adam P. Romero Pdf

Feminist and Queer Legal Theory: Intimate Encounters, Uncomfortable Conversations is a groundbreaking collection that brings together leading scholars in contemporary legal theory. The volume explores, at times contentiously, convergences and departures among a variety of feminist and queer political projects. These explorations - foregrounded by legal issues such as marriage equality, sexual harassment, workers' rights, and privacy - re-draw and re-imagine the alliances and antagonisms constituting feminist and queer theory. The essays cross a spectrum of disciplinary matrixes, including jurisprudence, political philosophy, literary theory, critical race theory, women's studies, and gay and lesbian studies. The authors occupy a variety of political positions vis-à-vis questions of identity, rights, the state, cultural normalization, and economic liberalism. The richness and vitality of feminist and queer theory, as well as their relevance to matters central to the law and politics of our time, are on full display in this volume.

Author : Lisa Keen
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807079669

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Out Law by Lisa Keen Pdf

The enormous advances of the civil rights movement have made it easier for LGBT youth to be "out," yet their increased visibility has led to myriad legal issues involving such critical matters as freedom of expression, sexual harassment, self-chosen medical care, and even their right to privacy within their own families. In this accessible guide, Lisa Keen illustrates how some laws limit the rights of LGBT youth and others protect them. Out Law lays out the basics about federal, state, and local laws that frequently impact LGBT youth and explains how legal authority and responsibility is often vested in local officials, such as school principals. Keen explains how laws treating LGBT people differently came to exist, evolved over time, and are subject to significant changes even today. Out Law discusses the shifting legal terrain for such issues as when schools can censor messages on T-shirts or library computer research into LGBT-related Web sites. It gives youth tips on how to document efforts to curb their rights and where to turn for help in protecting those rights.

Author : Brent L. Pickett
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-02
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781538157268

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The Transgender Encyclopedia by Brent L. Pickett Pdf

The Transgender Encyclopedia encompasses genderqueer history, along with contemporary developments that highlight the diversity and struggles of gender-diverse people. The book is global in scope, with extensive coverage of gender non-conformity across the world, along with entries on recent developments in international organizations and law.

Author : Joseph J. Fischel,Brenda Cossman
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781479807598

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Enticements by Joseph J. Fischel,Brenda Cossman Pdf

"Enticements: Queer Legal Studies is an interdisciplinary volume that provides an array of queer theoretic descriptions of and prescriptions for the legal regulation of sex, gender and sexuality"--

Author : Dianne Otto
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351971140

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Queering International Law by Dianne Otto Pdf

This ground-breaking collection reflects the growing momentum of interest in the international legal community in meshing the insights of queer legal theory with those critical theories that have a much longer genealogy – notably postcolonial and feminist analyses. Beyond the push in the human rights field to ensure respect for the rights of people with diverse sexual orientations and gender identities, queer legal theory provides a means to examine the structural assumptions and conceptual architecture that underpin the normative framework and operation of international law, highlighting bias and blind spots and offering fresh perspectives and practical innovations. The contributors to the book use queer legal theory to critically analyse the basic tenets and operations of international law, with many surprising, thought-provoking and instructive results. The volume will be of interest to many scholars, students and researchers in international law, international relations, cultural studies, gender studies, queer studies and postcolonial studies.

Author : Jen Neller
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031192425

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Stirring Up Hatred by Jen Neller Pdf

This book critically examines the development of the ‘stirring up hatred’ offences which are currently found within the UK’s Public Order Act 1986. Through a critical discourse analysis of key excerpts of parliamentary Hansard, the book constructs a detailed genealogy of the offences from the perspectives that shaped them. A novel application of theory on 'myth' is used to navigate the complex arguments and to trace ideas about identity and order across parliamentary debates, from fears of Fascism in the 1930s to condemnations of homophobia in the early 21st century. The story of the stirring up hatred offences told in this book therefore extends far beyond the traditional frame of a dilemma between regulating hate speech and safeguarding free speech: it is inextricably entwined with myths about law, race and national identity, and speaks to wider themes of coloniality, neoliberalism, white entitlement, British-Christian exceptionalism and the innocence of law. Written in an accessible and engaging style, this book challenges a wide range of assumptions about hate speech law and raises a series of considerations for developing forms of accountability that are less complicit in the harms that they are supposed to redress.

Author : Ilias Trispiotis,Craig Purshouse
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509961160

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Banning ‘Conversion Therapy’ by Ilias Trispiotis,Craig Purshouse Pdf

This book looks at why and how states should legally ban LGBTQ+ 'conversion therapy'. Few states have legislated against the practice, with many currently considering its legal ban. Banning 'Conversion Therapy' brings together leading academics, legal and medical practitioners, policymakers, and activists to illuminate the legislative and non-legislative steps that are required to protect individuals from the harms of 'conversion therapy' in different contexts. The book considers how best to address this complex and interdisciplinary legal problem which cuts across human rights law, criminal law, family law, and socio-legal studies, and which represents one of the key contemporary problems of LGBTQ+ equality and national and international human rights activism.

Author : Christian W. Chun
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781350098244

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Applied Linguistics and Politics by Christian W. Chun Pdf

In the current climate of extreme nationalism and fear-mongering, a new politics for a socially just world is needed more than ever. Featuring internationally-renowned scholars, Applied Linguistics and Politics explores how innovative theories, methodologies and pedagogies in applied linguistics can address the political challenges and issues arising in the 21st century. Adopting a Gramscian theoretical framework, the five parts of this volume focus on the various ways in which the political is discursively and materially realized in its dialogic co-constructions within the media, the economy, culture and identity, affect, and education. Examining the power instantiations of sociolinguistic and semiotic practices in society from a variety of critical perspectives, this book questions how applied linguists can respond to, and challenge, current discourses of issues such as militarism, nationalism, Islamophobia, sexism, racism and the free market, and suggests future directions for research. Making use of a range of methodologies from discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, semiotics and political science, Applied Linguistics and Politics demonstrates how linguistics can intervene in the political and help mobilize and organize for an economically and socially just society.

Author : John Fisher,Kristie McComb,EGALE Canada Human Rights Trust
Publisher : Egale Canada
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Law
ISBN : 097344570X

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Outlaws & Inlaws : Your Guide to LGBT Rights, Same-sex Relationships and Canadian Law by John Fisher,Kristie McComb,EGALE Canada Human Rights Trust Pdf

Author : Gina Heathcote,Sara Bertotti,Emily Jones,Sheri A. Labenski
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786996718

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The Law of War and Peace by Gina Heathcote,Sara Bertotti,Emily Jones,Sheri A. Labenski Pdf

The Law of War and Peace offers a cutting-edge analysis of the relationship between law, armed conflict, gender and peace. This book, which is the first of two volumes, focuses on the interplay between international law and gendered experiences of armed conflict. It provides an in-depth analysis of the key debates on collective security, unilateral force, the laws governing conflict, terrorism and international criminal law. While much of the current scholarship has centered on the UN Security Council's Resolutions on Women, Peace and Security, this two-volume work seeks to move understandings beyond the framework established by WPS. It does this through providing a critical and intersectional approach to gender and conflict which is mindful of transnational feminist and queer perspectives.

Author : Klaus Stierstorfer,Daniela Carpi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110489255

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Diaspora, Law and Literature by Klaus Stierstorfer,Daniela Carpi Pdf

The well-known challenges of international migration have triggered new departures in academic approaches, with 'diaspora studies' evolving as an interdisciplinary and even transdisciplinary field of study. Its emerging methodology shares concerns with another interdisciplinary field, the study of the relations between law and literature, which focuses on the ways in which the two cultural practices of law and literature mutually negotiate each other and on the question after the ontological commensurability of the domains. This volume offers, for the first time, an attempt to provide an interface between these overlapping interdisciplinary endeavours of literary studies, legal studies, and diaspora studies. In doing so, it explores new approaches and invites new perspectives on diasporas, migration and the disciplines that study them, hopefull also adding to the cultural resources of coping with a swiftly changing social landscape in a globalizing world.

Author : Lisa Keen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-22
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1435284097

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Out Law by Lisa Keen Pdf

Provides advice on the laws that affect and may protect lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender young people in the United States, including those covering sexual activity, free speech and association, protection from abuse, and privacy.

Author : Martha Albertson Fineman,Jack E. Jackson,Adam P. Romero
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317135739

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Feminist and Queer Legal Theory by Martha Albertson Fineman,Jack E. Jackson,Adam P. Romero Pdf

Feminist and Queer Legal Theory: Intimate Encounters, Uncomfortable Conversations is a groundbreaking collection that brings together leading scholars in contemporary legal theory. The volume explores, at times contentiously, convergences and departures among a variety of feminist and queer political projects. These explorations - foregrounded by legal issues such as marriage equality, sexual harassment, workers' rights, and privacy - re-draw and re-imagine the alliances and antagonisms constituting feminist and queer theory. The essays cross a spectrum of disciplinary matrixes, including jurisprudence, political philosophy, literary theory, critical race theory, women's studies, and gay and lesbian studies. The authors occupy a variety of political positions vis-à-vis questions of identity, rights, the state, cultural normalization, and economic liberalism. The richness and vitality of feminist and queer theory, as well as their relevance to matters central to the law and politics of our time, are on full display in this volume.