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This book will broaden our view of the relation between law, science, and sexuality. The author takes us away from the typical subjects of queer legal scholarship - particularly constitutional litigation on privacy, the military, and marriage - and into the world of the adult theater, the workplace, and the prison in order to illustrate complex conceptual linkages between act and identity, science and the law, politics and epistemology. A pleasure to read. - Martha Merrill Umphrey, Amherst College.
AIDS and the Sexuality of Law is an ambitious work in which the author assumes the risks of exploring the constitutive role of uncertainty in appellate-level AIDS cases. This is a convincing exploration of the rhetorical means by which the mechanisms of the closet are strengthened - through legal blindness to scientific evidence and by strategic avoidance of scientific uncertainties. Rollins has made an original contribution to the analysis of legal discourse.
- Rosemary J.Coombe, Canada Research Chair in Law, Communication, and Cultural Studies, York University
This is a groundbreaking book. By reading ironically the operations of the 'closets' in the jurisprudence of AIDS, Rollins shows us how cultural knowledge about sexuality operates to render silences, elisions, and the 'unknowable' into potent political forces.
- Paisley Currah, Associate Professor of Political Science, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York
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Book Title: AIDS and the Sexuality of Law
Book Subtitle: Ironic Jurisprudence
Authors: Joe Rollins
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403981226
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2004
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-312-24006-6Published: 30 January 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-38713-7Published: 23 December 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4039-8122-6Published: 02 January 2004
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 244
Topics: Human Rights, Medical Law, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Popular Science in Medicine and Health, Cultural and Media Studies, general