Enticements: Queer Legal Studies

by Joseph J. Fischel (Editor), Brenda Cossman (Editor)

Overview

Provides a variety of queer, interdisciplinary interventions upon the social and legal regulation of sex,
gender, reproduction, and family.

In Enticements, an exceptional group of interdisciplinary scholars comes together to contribute to the field of Queer Legal Studies. The essays investigate a wildly proliferating assortment of genders, sexualities, and intimacies, questioning how they have been regulated, criminalized, or privileged by law and other regulatory forces.

Enticements expands and expounds on the discipline of queer legal studies. Contributors focus on a wide range of sex/gender regulatory regimes, interrogating the use and abuse of queer history for impact litigation and social change, colonial and postcolonial sex laws otherwise obscured by the modern LGBT paradigm of sexual identity, and the policing of trans and cis men. Moving beyond a focus on LGBT identities, contributors consider limits to reproductive freedom, the Christianization of social justice movements, and the politicization of care within and across Black and feminist studies. Accessible and forward-looking, Enticements consolidates and emboldens queer legal studies as a critical, necessary field for the historical present.

With noted contributions from Libby Adler, Chris Ashford, Matthew Ball, Noa Ben-Asher, Mary Anne Case, Brenda Cossman, Joseph J. Fischel, Janet Halley, Zachary Herz, Ratna Kapur, Ido Katri, Evelyn Kessler, Ummni Khan, Kyle Kirkup, Jennifer C. Nash, Senthorun Raj, and Matthew Waites.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781479807598
Publisher:	New York University Press
Publication date:	03/19/2024
Series:	LGBTQ Politics , #5
Pages:	408
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Joseph J. Fischel (Editor)
Joseph J. Fischel is Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University. He is the author of Screw Consent: A Better Politics of Sexual Justice and Sex and Harm in the Age of Consent.

Brenda Cossman (Editor)
Brenda Cossman is the Goodman-Schipper Chair and Professor of Law at the University of Toronto. She is the author of The New Sex Wars: Sexual Harm in the #MeToo Era and Sexual Citizens: The Legal and Cultural Regulation of Sex and Belonging.

Editorial Reviews

"A field-defining collection that is defiant, insistent, caring, and considered. Enticements populates the nomenclature ‘queer legal studies’ with intellectual genealogies that include and exceed queer, critical and left-legal, feminist, Black, critical ethnic, postcolonial, and crip studies, which materializes the editorial promise to entice: luring fields not obviously, or previously, hailed by the ‘queer’ or the ‘legal’ into the unstable —reactive, unpredictable, tense, and charged — relation of the two. They invite readers to consider queer and legal as objects, ways of thinking, and modes of asking questions, and invite readers to dwell in the uncomfortable, sometimes incompatible, but nonetheless essential pairing of the two."

author of Consent in the Presence of Force: Se Emily A. Owens

"For those of us in and around queer legal studies, Enticements is the collection that we’ve been waiting for. Joseph J. Fischel and Brenda Cossman's curated collection goes beyond the bounds of identitarian thinking that has corralled too much analysis on the regulation of sexuality. The essays in this volume beseech us to see that sex (the act, the designation) is everywhere, and so too is the juridical imaginary that governs thinking about bodies, innocence, intimacy, rights, and wrongs."

author of Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transg Paisley Currah

"Enticements arrives exactly when we need it, filling the scholarly vacuum to be found between queer and legal theory. As LGBTQ legal studies calcifies into a field, the essays in Enticements lure us away from that disciplinary pull, reminding scholars of law, sexuality, and identity of the delights that lie in critically imagining queer legal futures."

author of Wedlocked: The Perils of Marriage Eq Katherine Franke

"Enticements arrives exactly when we need it, filling the scholarly vacuum to be found between queer and legal theory. As LGBTQ legal studies calcifies into a field, the essays in Enticements lure us away from that disciplinary pull, reminding scholars of law, sexuality, and identity of the delights that lie in critically imagining queer legal futures."-- "Katherine Franke, author of Wedlocked: The Perils of Marriage Equality"

"A field-defining collection that is defiant, insistent, caring, and considered. Enticements populates the nomenclature 'queer legal studies' with intellectual genealogies that include and exceed queer, critical and left-legal, feminist, Black, critical ethnic, postcolonial, and crip studies, which materializes the editorial promise to entice: luring fields not obviously, or previously, hailed by the 'queer' or the 'legal' into the unstable --reactive, unpredictable, tense, and charged -- relation of the two. They invite readers to consider queer and legal as objects, ways of thinking, and modes of asking questions, and invite readers to dwell in the uncomfortable, sometimes incompatible, but nonetheless essential pairing of the two."-- "Emily A. Owens, author of Consent in the Presence of Force: Sexual Violence and Black Women's Survival in Antebellum New Orleans"

"For those of us in and around queer legal studies, Enticements is the collection that we've been waiting for. Joseph J. Fischel and Brenda Cossman's curated collection goes beyond the bounds of identitarian thinking that has corralled too much analysis on the regulation of sexuality. The essays in this volume beseech us to see that sex (the act, the designation) is everywhere, and so too is the juridical imaginary that governs thinking about bodies, innocence, intimacy, rights, and wrongs."-- "Paisley Currah, author of Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity"

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