Red, white, and BLACK AND BLUE : the American criminalization of BDSM / Stephan Ferris. Part VII. New boundaries and activism -- From the litigants' perspective : Wilkinson v Kitzinger and the pursuit of marriage equality in England and Wales / Sue Wilkinson and Celia Kitzinger -- Formal recognition of adult relationships and legal gender in a comparative perspective / Jens M. Scherpe -- Diplomacy, conditionality and transnational LGBTI rights / Kay Lalor -- Legislating and litigating same sex marriage in China / Tingting Liu and Jingshu Zhu -- Striking women : the politics of gender, sexuality and the law in South Africa / Melanie Judge and Dee Smythe -- Part II. Identity and state -- Life at the corner of poverty and sexual abjection : lewdness, indecency, and LGBTQ youth / Libby Adler -- Same sex marriage and Article 12 of the European Convention on Human Rights / Paul Johnson and Silvia Falcetta -- LGBTI migration in Europe / Alexander Schuster -- Fully recognizing both dignity and equality values under the emergent ECHR right to a same sex registered partnership / Helen Fenwick and Daniel Fenwick -- Transgender rights in Europe : EU and Council of Europe movements towards gender identity equality / Peter Dunne -- Part III. Lived society -- Normative understandings : sexual identity, stereotypes, and asylum seeking / Alex Powell -- Feminist responses to same sex relationship recognition / Rosemary Auchmuty -- LGBT rights and tax law : a comparative perspective / Anthony C. Infanti -- LGBT rights in Africa / Siri Gloppen and Lise Rakner -- Part IV. Bodily autonomy -- A perfect storm : the UK government's failed consultation on the Gender Recognition Act 2004 / Stephen Whittle and Fiona Simkiss -- Becoming a legal proxy : the unintended consequences of informed consent in US transgender medicine / stef m. shuster -- (De)regulating trans identities / Flora Renz -- 'That's a bit of a minefield' : supported decision making in intellectually disabled people's intimate lives / Rosie Harding and Ezgi Tasʹcioglu -- Dispute resolution, domestic violence and abuse between lesbian partners / Maria Federica Moscati -- Part V. Violence and vulnerability -- The global femicide problem : issues and prospects / Rosemary Barberet and Aneesa A. Baboolal -- Law, society and domestic violence : 'best practice' methodologies for evaluating integrated domestic violence services / Nan Seuffert and Trish Mundy -- Gender and hate crime protections / Marian Duggan -- Feminist mandated reporters question the Title IX system : when civil rights programs adopt managerial logics and protect institutional interests / Jessica Cabrera -- Vulnerability, victimhood and sex offences / Sharon Cowan and Rebecca Hewer -- Part VI. Deviancy and illicit constructions -- Kinky identity and practice in relation to the law / Ummni Khan -- Male sex work : a gendered, (hetro)sexist approach to regulation / Thomas Crofts -- Regulating desire in Russia / Alexander Kondakov -- Normative behaviour, moral boundaries and the state / Chris Ashford, Alexander Maine and Giuseppe Zago -- Deviancy and illicit constructions / Brian Simpson -- Part VII. Transgressive boundaries -- Masculinities and families : fragmenting law's 'family man' / Richard Collier -- The healthcare rights of people living with HIV and AIDS / Matthew Weait -- Regulating pornography : developments in evidence, theory and law / Fiona Vera-Gray and Clare McGlynn -- Defending pornography : the case against strategic essentialism / Alex Dymock -- Red, white, and BLACK AND BLUE : the American criminalization of BDSM / Stephan Ferris.
Summary:
This innovative and thought-provoking Research Handbook explores not only current debates in the area of gender, sexuality and the law but also points the way for future socio-legal research and scholarship. It presents wide-ranging insights and debates from across the globe, including Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Australia, with contributions from leading scholars and activists alongside exciting emergent voices. Chapters address a range of current arguments and issues, providing an enhanced theoretical framework and evolving understanding from a variety of feminist and queer perspectives. Relationship recognition debates and LGBT activism and scholarship are examined and discussed, as well as questions around bodily autonomy, kink identities, pornography and healthcare access rights. Research exploring the lived experiences of people facing challenges such as domestic violence, asylum, femicide and hate crime is also assessed. This Research Handbook will be an invaluable resource for researchers and students in the fields of law, sexuality and gender, as well as family studies, sociology, media and cultural studies, and medicine. Activists will also benefit from its scholarly insight into key policy debates and future strategy. "This innovative and thought-provoking Research Handbook explores not only current debates in the area of gender, sexuality and the law but also points the way for future socio-legal research and scholarship. It presents wide-ranging insights and debates from across the globe, including Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Australia, with contributions from leading scholars and activists alongside exciting emergent voices."
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