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

Fineman, Martha Albertson,Ed.

Feminist and queer legal theory : intimate encounters, uncomfortable conversations / edited by Martha Albertson Fineman, Jack E. Jackson, Adam P. Romero. - Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate , c2009. - xii, 490 p. ;

Includes bibliographical references (p. [439]-478) and index.

Queer theory by men / Janet Halley -- Theorizing yes : an essay on feminism, law, and desire / Katherine M. Franke -- The sexual family / Martha Albertson 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 T. 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 W. Carbado -- The transgender rights imaginary / Paisley Currah -- Compulsory monogamy and polyamorous existence / Elizabeth F. Emens -- This is not your father's autonomy : lesbian and gay rights from a feminist and relational perspective / Carlos A. Ball -- Compulsory matrimony / Ruthann Robson -- From paternafare to marriage promotion : sexual regulation and welfare reform / Anna Marie Smith -- Transgressive caretaking / Laura T. 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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Feminist jurisprudence.
Feminist theory.
Queer theory.
Women
Gays
Homosexuality

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