Enticements: Queer Legal Studies

Enticements is a collection of interdisciplinary essays that explore the regulation, criminalization, and privilege of genders, sexualities, and intimacies. It expands the field of queer legal studies by focusing on a wide range of sex/gender regulatory regimes, queer history, reproductive freedom, and the politicization of care. The book is accessible and forward-looking, consolidating and emboldening queer legal studies as a critical field for the historical present.

Format: Hardback
Length: 408 pages
Publication date: 30 January 2024
Publisher: New York University Press

Queer Legal Studies is a dynamic and interdisciplinary field that explores a wide range 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 this field. The essays in this collection investigate a diverse array 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 that are often 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, Enticements offers a comprehensive and thought-provoking exploration of the complex intersections of sex, gender, reproduction, and family with law and society.

Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781479807598