ABSTRACT

Authored by the leading voices in critical legal studies, feminist legal theory, critical race theory and queer legal theory, After Identity explores the importance of sexual, national and other identities in people's lived experiences while simultaneously challenging the limits of legal strategies focused on traditional identity groups. These new ways of thinking about cultural identity have implications for strategies for legal reform, as well as for progressive thinking generally about theory, culture and politics.

part 1|60 pages

Sexuality

chapter Chapter1|17 pages

A Postmodern Feminist Legal Manifesto

(An Unfinished Draft)

chapter Chapter 2|15 pages

The Politics of the Closet

Legal Articulation of Sexual Orientation Identity

chapter Chapter 3|22 pages

Identity Strategies

Representing Pregnancy and Homosexuality

part 2|62 pages

Affirmative Action

chapter Chapter 4|16 pages

Race Consciousness

chapter Chapter 5|20 pages

Political Power and Cultural Subordination

A Case for Affirmative Action in Legal Academia

chapter Chapter 6|20 pages

The Obliging Shell

(An Informal Essay on Formal Equal Opportunity)

part 3|61 pages

Community

chapter Chapter 7|14 pages

Stories and Standing

The Legal Meaning of Identity

chapter Chapter 9|19 pages

Decentering Decentralization

part 4|86 pages

Postcolonialism

chapter Chapter 10|19 pages

An Autumn Weekend

An Essay on Law and Everyday Life

chapter Chapter 11|19 pages

Female Subjects of Public International Law

Human Rights and the Exotic Other Female

chapter Chapter 13|20 pages

The Properties of Culture and the Politics of Possessing Identity

Native Claims in the Cultural Appropriation Controversy

part 5|84 pages

Violence

chapter Chapter 14|17 pages

Beyond the Privacy Principle

chapter Chapter 15|20 pages

On Terrorism

Reflections on Violence and the Outlaw

chapter Chapter 16|18 pages

Outlaw Women

An Essay on Thelma & Louise

chapter Chapter 17|23 pages

Mapping the Margins

Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color