1st Edition
Erotic Justice Law and the New Politics of Postcolonialism
By Ratna Kapur
Copyright 2005
228 Pages
by
Routledge-Cavendish
228 Pages
by
Routledge-Cavendish
228 Pages
by
Routledge-Cavendish
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The essays in Erotic Justice address the ways in which law has been implicated in contemporary debates dealing with sexuality, culture and `different' subjects - including women, sexual minorities, Muslims and the transnational migrant. Law is analyzed as a discursive terrain, where these different subjects are excluded or included in the postcolonial present on terms that are reminiscent of... Read more
Introduction; New Cosmologies: Mapping the Postcolonial Feminist Legal Project; Erotic Disruptions: Legal Narratives of Culture, Sex and Nation in India; The Tragedy of Victimization Rhetoric: Resurrecting the `Native' Subject in International/Postcolonial Feminist Legal Politics; The `Other' Side of Universality: Cross-Border Movements and the Transnational Migrant Subject.
Biography
Kapur, Ratna
'In this elegantly argued book, [Kapur] provides a rich account of a series of disruptions that, in itself, is a welcome act of political resistance.' - Social & Legal Studies
'Kapur demonstrate[s] the continuing importance of gender and sexuality as sites for critical engagement with liberalism, citizenship, nationalism, and postcolonialism. These are interventions that challenge much recieved orthodoxy and they deserve careful reading.' - Social & Legal Studies
