Regulating Sex

The Politics of Intimacy and Identity
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-415-94868-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 703 g

Reihe: Perspectives on Gender

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bernstein, Elizabeth

Schaffner, Laurie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CONTENTS Part I. The Regulation of Queer Identities and Intimacies 1. MARY BERNSTEIN Liberalism and Social Movement Success: The Case of United States Sodomy Statutes 2. WILLIAM ROUNTREE Contract and the Legal Mooring of Same-Sex Intimacy 3. PAISLEY CURRAH and SHANNON MINTER Unprincipled Exclusions: The Struggle to Achieve Judicial and Legislative Equality for Transgender People Part II. The Regulation of Sexual Commerce 4. WENDY CHAPKIS Soft Glove, Punishing Fist: The Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 5. LAURA AGUSTÍN At Home in the Street: Questioning the Desire to Help and Save 6. JULIA O'CONNELL DAVIDSON and JACQUELINE SANCHEZ TAYLOR Travel and Taboo: Heterosexual Sex Tourism in the Caribbean 7. ELIZABETH BERNSTEIN Desire, Demand, and the Commerce of Sex Part III. The Regulation of Childhood and Gendered Innocence 8. KJERSTI ERICSSON Child Welfare as Social Defense against Sexuality: A Norwegian Example 9. KERWIN KAYE Sexual Abuse and the Wholesome Family: Feminist, Psychological, and State Discourses 10. PENELOPE SAUNDERS Identity to Acronym: How Child Prostitution Became CSEC 11. LAURIE SCHAFFNER Capacity, Consent, and the Construction of Adulthood Part IV. Beyond Regulation: Towards Sexual Justice 12. GERT HEKMA How Libertarian is the Netherlands? Exploring Contemporary Dutch Sexual Cultures 13. STEVEN SEIDMAN From Outsider to Citizen 14. JANET JAKOBSEN and ELIZABETH LAPOVSKY KENNEDY Sex and Freedom Bibliography About the Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Elizabeth Bernstein is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University. Laurie Schaffner is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the author of Teenage Runaways.