ABSTRACT
This book explores contemporary social theory and developments in the study of sexuality through the analysis of law and its practices. Each chapter explores the power of discourse in law in relation to homosexualities, while simultaneously examining how homosexuals resist and disrupt these legal discourses. It is a valuable addition to the literature of the fields of Sociology, Cultural Studies, Law, Politics, Gender Studies and Sexuality.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |24 pages
Introduction
chapter |27 pages
Authenticity, evasion and the unknowable homosexual
chapter |46 pages
The fear of ‘homosexual spread'
Legislating the heteronormativity of protection 1957–2000
