Queer Theory: Law, Culture, Empire
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Queer Theory: Law, Culture, Empire uses queer theory to examine the complex interactions of law, culture, and empire. Building on recent work on empire, and taking contextual, socio-legal, comparative, and interdisciplinary approaches, it studies how activists and scholars engaged in queer theory projects can unwittingly advance imperial projects and how queer theory can itself show imperial ambitions. The authors – from five continents – delve into examples drawn from Bollywood cinema to California’s 2008 marriage referendum. The chapters view a wide range of texts – from cultural productions to laws and judgments – as regulatory forces requiring scrutiny from outside Western, heterosexual privilege. This innovative collection goes beyond earlier queer legal work, engaging with recent developments, featuring case studies from India, South Africa, the US, Australasia, Eastern Europe, and embracing the frames offered by different disciplinary lenses.
Queer Theory: Law, Culture, Empire will be of particular interest to students and researchers in the fields of socio-legal studies, comparative law, law and gender/sexuality, and law and culture.
ISBN
9780415697736
Publication Date
2011
Publisher
Routledge
City
New York
Keywords
Queer Theory, Legal Theory, Culture, Empire, Postcolonialism, Interdisciplinarity
Disciplines
Law | Law and Gender | Public Law and Legal Theory | Sexuality and the Law
Recommended Citation
Robert Leckey & Kim Brooks, eds, Queer Theory: Law, Culture, Empire (New York: Routledge, 2011).
