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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784429503321

Titolo

Regulating sex : the politics of intimacy and identity / / edited by Elizabeth Bernstein and Laurie Schaffner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; London : , : Routledge, , 2005

ISBN

1-135-93402-9

1-135-93403-7

1-280-10346-9

0-203-00607-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (340 p.)

Collana

Perspectives on gender

Altri autori (Persone)

BernsteinElizabeth <1968->

SchaffnerLaurie

Disciplina

306.7

Soggetti

Sex - Political aspects

Sex and law

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-313) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Regulating Sex: An Introduction; Liberalism and Social Movement Success: The Case of United States Sodomy Statutes; Contract and the Legal Mooring of Same-Sex Intimacy; Unprincipled Exclusions: The Struggle to Achieve Judicial and Legislative Equality for Transgender People; Soft Glove, Punishing Fist: The Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000; At Home in the Street: Questioning the Desire to Help and Save; Travel and Taboo: Heterosexual Sex Tourism to the Caribbean; Desire, Demand, and the Commerce of Sex

Child Welfare as Social Defense Against Sexuality: A Norwegian ExampleSexual Abuse and the Wholesome Family: Feminist, Psychological, and State Discourses; Identity to Acronym: How "Child Prostitution" Became "CSEC"; Capacity, Consent, and the Construction of Adulthood; How Libertine Is the Netherlands?: Exploring Contemporary Dutch Sexual Cultures; From Outsider to Citizen; Sex and Freedom; References; About the Contributors; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Regulating Sex discusses the various ways that sex and sexuality are regulated by government and society. This collection has an impressive



array of contributors writing on compelling topics.