1st Edition

Regulating Sexuality Legal Consciousness in Lesbian and Gay Lives

By Rosie Harding Copyright 2011
214 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

Winner of the 2011 SLSA-Hart Socio-Legal Book Prize Regulating Sexuality: Legal Consciousness in Lesbian and Gay Lives explores the impact that recent seismic shifts in the legal landscape have had for lesbians and gay men. The last decade has been a time of extensive change in the legal regulation of lesbian and gay lives in Britain, Canada and the US. Almost every area that the law... Read more

1. Introduction: Law, Sexuality and Everyday Life  2. Legal Consciousness in Lesbian and Gay Lives  3. Reconsidering Resistance  4. From ‘Outlaws’ to ‘In-Laws’?  5. Stories of Law  6. Recognising Regulation  7. Imagining a Different World  8. Afterword

Biography

Dr Rosie Harding is a lecturer in law at Keele University.

‘The book is a milestone of a sophisticated and nuanced socio-legal study that deepens and expands the scope of the existing research on the place of law in everyday queer lives’ - Antu Sorainen, University of Helsinki, Finland for Social & Legal Studies (2013)