Law and Sexuality

by Stychin, Carl F.; Herman, Didi

• ISBN13: 9780816638703
• ISBN10: 0816638705
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-02-01
• Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
PART ONE: NATIONALITY AND POSTCOLONIALITY	1	(66)
A Post-With/Out A Past?
Sexual orientation and the post-colonial `moment' in South Africa	3	(14)
Jennifer Spruill
Constituting The Global Gay
Issues of individual subjectivity and sexuality in southern Africa	17	(18)
Oliver Phillips
`I'D Rather Be An Outlaw'
Identity, activism, and decriminalization in Tasmania	35	(16)
Emma M. Henderson
Rewriting Desire
The construction of sexual identity in literary and legal discourse in post-colonial lreland	51	(16)
Patrick Hanafin
PART TWO: SEXUALITY AND CRIMINALITY	67	(44)
The Deviant Gaze
Imagining the homosexual as criminal through cinematic and legal discourses	69	(15)
Derek Dalton
Homosexual Advances In Law
Murderous excuse, pluralized ignorance and the privilege of unknowing	84	(16)
Adrian Howe
Perverting London
The cartographic practices of law	100	(11)
Leslie J. Moran
Derek McGhee
PART THREE: PARTNERS AND FAMILIES	111	(68)
`Making a Mockery of Marriage'
Domestic partnership and equal rights in Hawai`i	113	(19)
Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller
How To Do Things With Sex	132	(47)
Heather Brook
`Aging and Retirement Are Not Unique To Heterosexuals'
Rosenberg v Canada	151	(13)
Claire F.L. Young
Straight Families, Queer Lives?
Heterosexual (izing) family law	164	(15)
Richard Collier
PART FOUR: THE POLITICS OF RIGHTS	179	(47)
Treading On Dicey Ground
Citizenship and the politics of the rule of law	181	(13)
Rebecca Johnson
Thomas Kuttner
The Constitution Made Us Queer
The sexual orientation clause in the South African Constitution and the emergence of gay and lesbian identity	194	(14)
Pierre de Vos
Queering International Rights Law	208	(18)
Wayne Morgan
Concluding Thoughts	226	(1)
Notes	227	(37)
References	264	(8)
About the Editors	272	(1)
About the Contributors	273	(3)
Acknowledgements	276	(1)
Index	277