Yvonne Zylan

States of Passion (eBook, PDF)

Law, Identity, and Social Construction of Desire

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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. The book focuses on three topics: anti-gay hate crime laws, same-sex sexual harassment, and same-sex marriage, examining how sexuality is socially constructed through the institutionally-specific production of legal discourse. States of Passion argues that law's power to authorize specific discourses and practices of love, desire, hatred, fear, and vulnerability remain grounded in the powerful discourses and institutional practices that mark law as dispassionate, cerebral, and fundamentally procedural. States of Passion contends that those states of passion we experience in our daily lives as particularly significant-to our sense of self, to our collective and social identities, and to our ideas about the body and its dictates-increasingly have as much to do with the state as they do with passion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199813476
• Artikelnr.: 40174986

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. Prior to joining the Hamilton faculty, Prof. Zylan practiced law for three years in the litigation department at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP and she remains a member of the bar in good standing in the State of California and in the federal courts of the 9th District. In 2005, she appeared before the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the 9th Circuit challenging state and federal bankruptcy law as applied to same-sex couples.

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
References