Queer theory
Subtitle: law, culture, empire
By: edited by Robert Leckey and Kim Brooks
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9780415572286; 9780203856116; 9780415697736
Subjects: Gay culture; Homosexuality; Law and legislation; Queer theory
Description: Queer Theory: Law, Culture, Empire uses queer theory to examine the complex interactions of law, culture and empire. Building on recent work on empire, and taking contextual, socio-legal, comparative, and interdisciplinary approaches, it studies how activists and scholars engaged in queer theory projects can unwittingly advance imperial projects and how queer theory can itself show imperial ambitions. The authors - from five continents - delve into examples drawn from Bollywood cinema to California's 2008 marriage referendum. The chapters view a wide range of texts - from cultural productions to laws and judgments - as regulatory forces requiring scrutiny from outside Western, heterosexual privilege. This innovative collection goes beyond earlier queer legal work, engaging with recent developments, featuring case studies from India, South Africa, the United States, Australasia. Eastern Europe, and embracing the frames offered by different disciplinary lenses.<BR><BR>Queer Theory:

Law, Culture, Empire will be of particular interest to students and researchers in the fields of socio-legal studies, comparative law, law and gender/sexuality, and law and culture. --Book Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Robert Leckey and Kim Brooks; title: Queer theory, neoliberalism and urban governance / Jon Binnie; title: De-radicalising the rights claims of sexual subalterns through 'tolerance' / Ratna Kapur; title: Bollywood cinema and queer sexualities / Shohini Ghosh; title: Post-apartheid fraternity, post-apartheid democracy, post-apartheid sexuality : queer reflections on Jane Alexander's Butcher boys / Jaco Barnard-Naudé; title: The judicial virtue of sexuality / Leslie J. Moran; title: Reproductive outsiders : the perils and disruptive potential of reproductive coalitions / Jenni Millbank; title: Queer-religious potentials in US same-sex marriage debates / Jeffrey A. Redding; title: What's queer about polygamy? / Margaret Denike; title: An 'imperial' strategy? : the use of comparative and international law in arguments about LGBT rights / Nicholas Bamforth; title: Reproducing empire in same-sex relationship recognition and immigration law reform / Nan Seuffert; title: Unsettled / Ruthann Robson.