Research handbook on gender sexuality and the law This innovative and thought provoking Research Handbook explores not only current debates in the area of gender sexuality and the law but also points the way for future socio legal research and scholarship. It presents wide ranging insights and debates from across the globe including Africa Asia Eastern Europe and Australia with contributions from leading scholars and activists alongside exciting emergent voices. Chapters address a range of current arguments and issues providing an enhanced theoretical framework and evolving understanding from a variety of feminist and queer perspectives. Relationship recognition debates and LGBT activism and scholarship are examined and discussed as well as questions around bodily autonomy kink identities pornography and healthcare access rights. Research exploring the lived experiences of people facing challenges such as domestic violence asylum femicide and hate crime is also assessed. This Research Handbook will be an invaluable resource for researchers and students in the fields of law sexuality and gender as well as family studies sociology media and cultural studies and medicine. Activists will also benefit from its scholarly insight into key policy debates and future strategy