Full Description
This textbook combines pioneering feminist and queer judgments and statutes with critical and intersectional theories, to provide a comprehensive overview of the field of gender, sexuality and law. A diverse range of socio-legal experts set out the theoretical and legal foundations of the topic, before examining the ongoing struggle for rights and contemporary dissenting voices.
Key Features:
Inclusion of feminist and queer judgments and statutes linked to gender and sexuality
Accessible and detailed discussion of feminist and queer theory, and critical race theory
Discussion of the decriminalisation of homosexuality, consent and sexual violence, hate crime, sex work and pornography
Exploration of trans identities, relationship recognition rights, parenthood and reproduction, pregnancy and abortion, gender and the legal profession, and identities and employment
Accessibly written and carefully structured, this textbook is an important resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students of gender, sexuality, feminist law and queer legal studies. It is also a crucial read for those studying law and society, criminology and cultural studies.
Contents
Contents
Introduction to Gender, Sexuality and Law 9
Chris Ashford and Alexander Maine
PART I THEORIES OF LAW, GENDER AND SEXUALITY
1 Feminist legal theories 16
Laura Graham
2 Queer Legal Theory 38
Alexander Maine
3 Critical Race Theory and intersectionality 61
Senthorun Raj
PART II CRIMINALISATION
4 Decriminalisation of homosexuality 84
Chris Ashford
5 Consent, sexual violence, and the law 103
Cameron Giles and Hannah Bows
6 Hate crime 125
Alex Powell
7 The legal regulation of sex work 142
Thomas Crofts
8 Pornography and expression 167
Chris Ashford and Alexander Maine
PART III RIGHTS AND DISSENT
9 Transgender jurisprudence 189
Flora Renz and Avi Boukli
10 Relationship recognition 208
Alexander Maine
11 Parenthood and assisted reproduction 230
Alan Brown
12 Abortion 250
Laura Graham
13 Gender and the legal professions 273
Jessica Guth
14 Care, identity and the workplace 289
Eugenia Caracciolo di Torella
