1st Edition

Endowed Regulating the Male Sexed Body

By Michael Thomson Copyright 2008
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

Feminist legal scholars and health care lawyers have long engaged with law’s responses to the female reproductive body, especially on what the legal regulation of women’s reproductive lives can tell us about the broader relationship between law and gender. Acknowledging this work and building upon it, Endowed considers the interaction of law and ideas of male reproductivity. In particular, it... Read more

1. Masculinity, Reproductivity and Law  2. Short Changed?: The Law and Ethics of Male Circumcision  3. Reproductivity, the Workplace and the Gendering of the Body (Politic)  4. Viagra Nation: Sex and Prescribing Familial Masculinity  5. Regulating (for) Sperm Donor Identity  6. A Question of Sex?: Sport, the Healthy Body and Masculinity  7. Conclusions: Perverse Fantasy and Bodily Possibility

Biography

Michael Thomson is Professor of Law, Culture, and Society in the School of Law, Keele University.