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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791125303321

Titolo

Queer theory : law, culture, empire / / edited by Robert Leckey and Kim Brooks

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-135-14788-4

1-135-14789-2

1-282-63972-2

9786612639722

0-203-85611-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (236 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BrooksKim

LeckeyRobert

Disciplina

342.08/7

Soggetti

Homosexuality - Law and legislation

Gay culture

Queer theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A GlassHouse book."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Table of cases; Table of statutes; Table of statutory instruments; Chapter 1 Introduction; Pat 1 Constitution; Chapter 2 Queer theory, neoliberalism and urban governance; Chapter 3 De-radicalising the rights claims of sexual subalterns through 'tolerance'; Part 2 Representation; Chapter 4 Bollywood cinema and queer sexualities; Chapter 5 Post-apartheid fraternity, post-apartheid democracy, post-apartheid sexuality: Queer reflections on Jane Alexander's Butcher Boys; Chapter 6 The judicial virtue of sexuality

Part 3 RegulationChapter 7 Reproductive outsiders - the perils and disruptive potential of reproductive coalitions; Chapter 8 Queer-religious potentials in US same-sex marriage debates; Chapter 9 What's queer about polygamy?; Part 4 Exclusion; Chapter 10 An 'imperial' strategy?: The use of comparative and international law in arguments about LGBT rights; Chapter 11 Reproducing empire in same-sex relationship recognition and immigration law reform; Chapter 12



UnSettled; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797118003321

Autore

Bailey Alfred Goldsworthy

Titolo

The conflict of European and Eastern Algonkian cultures 1504-1700 : a study in Canadian civilization / / Alfred Goldsworthy Bailey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1969

©1969

ISBN

1-4426-5647-6

1-4426-3316-6

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (243 p.)

Collana

Heritage

Disciplina

917.1/03/1

Soggetti

Indians of North America - Canada

Algonquian Indians

French-Canadians

Electronic books.

Canada Civilization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First edition Saint John, N.B., New Brunswick Museum, 1937, issued as its Monograph series, no. 2.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION -- REAPPRAISALS -- 1 The Aboriginal Population -- 2 Occasional Contact on the Gulf Coast -- 3 Acadia at the Turn of the Century -- 4 The



Eastern Algonkians and the Balance of Power -- 5 The Displacement of Materials -- 6 Drunkenness and Regulation -- 7 Disease and Treatment -- 8 Political Modification -- 9 Social Disintegration -- 10 The Effect of Contact on the French -- 11 Religion -- 12 Art, Pictography, and Music -- 13 Mythology -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

Sommario/riassunto

This study examines the conflict between the Europeans and the Indians precipitated by the arrival of the French in the New World.