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Valentine / McNeill

The Coercive Power of the Law

Vulnerable Bodies and Boundaries of Perception

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-3-032-07588-8
Verlag: Birkhäuser
Erscheinungstermin: 24.10.2025
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This 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.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9783032075888
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-3-032-07588-8
  • Verlag: Birkhäuser
  • Erscheinungstermin: 24.10.2025
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2025
  • Produktform: Gebunden, HC runder Rücken kaschiert
  • Gewicht: 346 g
  • Seiten: 166
  • Format (B x H x T): 153 x 216 x 15 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Autoren/Hrsg.

Autoren

Chapter 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.