Feeling Queer Jurisprudence - Injury, Intimacy, Identity (Paperback)

This book draws on the analytic and political dimensions of queer, alongside the analytic and political usefulness of emotion, to navigate legal interventions aimed at progressing the rights of LGBT people. Scholars, activists, lawyers, and judges concerned with eliminating violence and discrimination against LGBT people have generated passionate conversations about pursuing law reform to make LGBT injuries, intimacies, and identities visible, while some challenge the ways legal systems marginalise queer minorities. Senthorun Sunil Raj powerfully contributes to these ongoing conversations by using emotion as an analytic frame to reflect on the ways case law seeks to "progress" the intimacies and identities of LGBT people from positions of injury. This book catalogues a range of cases from Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom to unpack how emotion shapes the decriminalisation of homosexuality, hate crime interventions, anti-discrimination measures, refugee protection, and marriage equality. While emotional enactments in pro-LGBT jurisprudence enable new forms of recognition and visibility, they can also work, paradoxically, to cover over queer intimacies and identities. Raj innovatively shows that reading jurisprudence through emotions can make space in law to affirm, rather than disavow, intimacies and identities that queer conventional ideas about "LGBT progress", without having to abandon legal pursuits to protect LGBT people. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of human rights law, gender and sexuality studies, and socio-legal theory.

General

Imprint:	Taylor & Francis
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Social Justice
Release date:	September 2021
First published:	2020
Authors:	Senthorun Raj
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	168
ISBN-13:	978-1-03-213751-3
Categories:	Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gay & Lesbian studies > Gay studies (Gay men) Books > Law > English law > Private, property, family > Gender law Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Private, property, family law > Torts / delicts Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Constitutional & administrative law > Citizenship & nationality law > General
LSN:	1-03-213751-7
Barcode:	9781032137513

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