Gaylaw
Subtitle: challenging the apartheid of the closet
By: William N. Eskridge, Jr.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 470
Subjects: Homosexuality -- Law and legislation -- United States; Gays -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States; Lesbians -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States
Other titles: Gay law
Description: "American regulation of sexual variation has been responsive to multiple anxieties - about disgusting acts, gender deviation, and predatory sexuality. Gaylaw authoritatively shows how such legal regulation has evolved in the United States throughout the last century, contributing to the construction of homosexuality as a totalizing identity trait and to the phenomenon of the closet, initially a hiding place for gay people, now best viewed as an exclusion from citizenship." "Gaylaw not only questions the remnants of the old regime of compulsory heterosexuality, but offers ideas about public law in a post-closet, indeed post-liberal, era."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-461) and index.