Yvonne Zylan

States of Passion

Law, Identity, and Social Construction of Desire

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In States of Passion: Law, Identity and the Social Construction of Desire, Professor Yvonne Zylan explores the role of legal discourse in shaping sexual experience, sexual expression, and sexual identity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 145mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780199735082
• ISBN-10: 0199735085
• Artikelnr.: 32832896

Autorenporträt

Yvonne Zylan, Associate Professor of Sociology, earned a B.A. in East Asian Studies from Yale University, a Ph.D. in sociology from New York University and a juris doctor from the University of San Diego School of Law. She has published articles in the Michigan Journal of Gender & Law, the Michigan Journal of Law Reform, Gender & Society, Social Forces, the American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Prof. Zylan's areas of scholarship include law and society, sexuality, social theory, political sociology, and the state and social policy. Her current work is centrally concerned with feminist theory and praxis, and addresses the social construction of sex, gender, and the body in and through legal discourse.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Desiring the Discipline of Law
Chapter 3: Beyond the Binary Matrix
Chapter 4: I Hate the Way You Make Me Feel
Chapter 5: Categorical Imperatives
Chapter 6: Aspiring to Be Iowan
Chapter 7: Conclusion
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