Feeling Queer Jurisprudence: Injury, Intimacy, Identity

Senthorun Sunil Raj's book uses emotion as an analytic frame to explore legal interventions aimed at progressing the rights of LGBT people. It catalogues cases from Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom to show how emotion shapes the decriminalisation of homosexuality, hate crime interventions, anti-discrimination measures, refugee protection, and marriage equality. Raj innovatively shows that reading jurisprudence through emotions can make space in law to affirm, rather than disavow, queer intimacies and identities, without abandoning legal pursuits to protect LGBT people.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 168 pages
\n Publication date: 30 September 2021
\n Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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This book delves into the multifaceted dimensions of queer, encompassing both the analytical and political significance of emotion, to navigate legal interventions aimed at advancing the rights of LGBTQ+ individuals. Scholars, activists, lawyers, and judges who are dedicated to eradicating violence and discrimination against LGBTQ+ people have sparked intense debates about pursuing law reform to bring visibility to the injuries, intimacies, and identities of these communities. While some critics argue that legal systems perpetuate marginalization of queer minorities, Senthorun Sunil Raj makes a powerful contribution to these ongoing discussions by employing emotion as an analytic framework to reflect on how case law seeks to progress the intimacies and identities of LGBTQ+ individuals from positions of harm.

This book serves as a comprehensive catalog of cases from Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom, highlighting how emotion shapes the decriminalization of homosexuality, hate crime interventions, anti-discrimination measures, refugee protection, and marriage equality. While emotional enactments in pro-LGBT jurisprudence facilitate new forms of recognition and visibility, they can also paradoxically conceal queer intimacies and identities. Raj innovatively demonstrates that reading jurisprudence through the lens of emotion creates space within the law to affirm, rather than disavow, intimacies and identities that deviate from conventional notions of LGBTQ+ progress, without compromising legal efforts to protect LGBTQ+ individuals.

This book holds immense interest for students and scholars of human rights law, gender and sexuality studies, and socio-legal theory. It offers valuable insights into the complex interplay between law, emotion, and LGBTQ+ rights, shedding light on the ongoing struggle for equality and justice.

\n Weight: 262g\n
Dimension: 233 x 154 x 21 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781032137513\n \n