Regulating Sex: The Politics of Intimacy and IdentityElizabeth Bernstein, Laurie Schaffner Routledge, 2005 M01 5 - 344 pages Regulating Sex is an anthology that presents debates over the role of the state in constructing and controlling erotic practice, intimacy, and identity. The purpose of this edited volume is to address sexual dilemmas in law and the state in substantive areas such as same-sex domestic partnerships, sexual economies, and childhood sexuality via a series of spirited dialogues between socio-legal scholars from diverse disciplinary, national, and political perspectives. |
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Page xiii
... state serves to shape our erotic possibilities and to impart a particular normative vision. The state, in short, has a sexual agenda. Thanks to an accumulating lineage of scholarship and activism, this is an assertion that is much ...
... state serves to shape our erotic possibilities and to impart a particular normative vision. The state, in short, has a sexual agenda. Thanks to an accumulating lineage of scholarship and activism, this is an assertion that is much ...
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... state serves to guarantee the very privacy of the private.9 The valorization of privacy by liberal states is itself premised upon a particular social configuration of sexual intimacy. This fact was made abundantly clear by the U.S. ...
... state serves to guarantee the very privacy of the private.9 The valorization of privacy by liberal states is itself premised upon a particular social configuration of sexual intimacy. This fact was made abundantly clear by the U.S. ...
Page xv
... state apparatus, but these various actors do not form a seamless whole.10 State regulatory strategies often contain gaps and contradictions. We regard state power as not simply censorial, but also as a productive force, noting the ways ...
... state apparatus, but these various actors do not form a seamless whole.10 State regulatory strategies often contain gaps and contradictions. We regard state power as not simply censorial, but also as a productive force, noting the ways ...
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... State” at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law in Oñati, Spain. We came together to raise probing questions about the regulation of intimate life ... state's lack of protections or xvi • Regulating Sex: An Introduction.
... State” at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law in Oñati, Spain. We came together to raise probing questions about the regulation of intimate life ... state's lack of protections or xvi • Regulating Sex: An Introduction.
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... state's lack of protections or recognition for those who defy conventional sex and gender norms, its ambivalent facilitation and curtailment of the global sexual marketplace in accordance with corporate-capitalist interests, and its ...
... state's lack of protections or recognition for those who defy conventional sex and gender norms, its ambivalent facilitation and curtailment of the global sexual marketplace in accordance with corporate-capitalist interests, and its ...
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