Michael Thomson

Endowed

Regulating the Male Sexed Body

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Feminist legal scholars and health care lawyers have long engaged with lawa (TM)s responses to the female reproductive body, especially on what the legal regulation of womena (TM)s reproductive lives can tell us about the broader relationship between law and gender. Acknowledging this work and building upon it, Endowed considers the interaction of law and ideas of male reproductivity. In particular, it seeks to uncover what these regulatory moments can tell us about contemporary ideas and ideals of masculinity and the male sexed body. Spanning topics such as male circumcision and the regulation of state access to Viagra, the book uncovers recurring motifs that define masculinity and the male body in the legal imagination. In looking to these understandings the book engages with broader questions regarding the relationship between law and gender and between masculinity and social organization.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9780415950602
• ISBN-10: 0415950600
• Artikelnr.: 23594511

Autorenporträt

Michael Thomson is Professor of Law, Culture, and Society in the School of Law, Keele University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Masculinity, Reproductivity and Law 2. Short Changed?: The Law and
Ethics of Male Circumcision 3. Reproductivity, the Workplace and the
Gendering of the Body (Politic) 4. Viagra Nation: Sex and Prescribing
Familial Masculinity 5. Regulating (for) Sperm Donor Identity 6. A Question
of Sex?: Sport, the Healthy Body and Masculinity 7. Conclusions: Perverse
Fantasy and Bodily Possibility