LEADER 03483nam 22005775 450 001 9911034955603321 005 20251024130434.0 010 $a3-032-07589-0 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-032-07589-5 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32375209 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32375209 035 $a(CKB)41724162800041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-032-07589-5 035 $a(EXLCZ)9941724162800041 100 $a20251024d2025 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Coercive Power of the Law $eVulnerable Bodies and Boundaries of Perception /$fby Riley Clare Valentine, Zane McNeill 205 $a1st ed. 2025. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource (191 pages) 225 1 $aPolitical Science and International Studies 311 08$a3-032-07588-2 327 $aChapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Disability, Valentine?s Narrative and the Law -- Chapter 3. Discipline and Disgust : Book Bans and ?Don?t Say Gay ? Laws -- Chapter 4. Reproductive Rights and the Revival of the Comstock Act -- Chapter 5. Punishing Queerness: Bar Raids, Anti-Sodomy Laws, and Gender-Affirming Care Bans -- Chapter 6. Epilogue: The Body and the Sacred. 330 $aThis book offers a critical exploration of the interplay between law, care ethics, and the body, emphasizing how legal systems both reflect societal values and regulate and discipline bodies and sexualities that deviate from normative standards, branding them as deviant or pathological. The authors contend that visibility?often celebrated as empowering?frequently serves as a mechanism of state control, subjecting marginalized bodies to cycles of hyper-visibility and erasure. Grounded in critical disability studies, queer theory, and Foucault?s theories of power, the book challenges liberalism?s focus on rights and autonomy, advocating instead for a framework centered on care ethics. Riley Clare Valentine, Ph.D. is a political theorist. They obtained their Ph.D. from Louisiana State University. Their books include Progressive Liberalism and Neoliberalism in American Politics: The Heterodoxical Imperative (Palgrave, 2024) and Be Gay, Do Crime: Everyday Acts of Radical Queer History (2025). Zane McNeill, M.A, is the co-editor of Deviant Hollers: Queering Appalachian Ecologies for a Sustainable Future (2024) and Politics as Public Art: The Aesthetics of Political Organizing and Social Movements (2023) and the editor of Building Multispecies Resistance Against Exploitation: Stories from the Frontlines of Labor and Animal Rights (2024). 410 0$aPolitical Science and International Studies 606 $aPolitical science 606 $aLaw$xPhilosophy 606 $aPolitical ethics 606 $aPolitical Theory 606 $aPhilosophy of Law 606 $aPolitical Ethics 615 0$aPolitical science. 615 0$aLaw$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aPolitical ethics. 615 14$aPolitical Theory. 615 24$aPhilosophy of Law. 615 24$aPolitical Ethics. 676 $a320.01 700 $aValentine$b Riley Clare$01780603 701 $aMcNeill$b Zane$01852985 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911034955603321 996 $aThe Coercive Power of the Law$94448985 997 $aUNINA