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"Is it possible to imagine a left legalism that is both politically efficacious and intellectually responsible in the face of the contemporary corruptions of neoliberal political order? In the essays collected here Brown and Halley have assembled a powerful response to hegemony of a liberalism that lacks conviction. They succeed in advancing both a critique of the limits of legalism and a space for thinking of legal struggle as a positive force for projects of liberation."--Thomas Dumm, Amherst College
List of contents
Acknowledgments
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Introduction / Wendy Brown and Janet Halley
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Beyond “Difference”: A Reluctant Critique of Legal Identity Politics / Richard T. Ford
Sexuality Harassment / Janet Halley
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The Subject of True Feeling: Pain, Privacy, and Politics / Lauren Berlant
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Ideology and Entitlement / Mark Kelman and Gillian Lester
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The Critique of Rights in Critical Legal Studies / Duncan Kennedy
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Is Kinship Always Already Heterosexual? / Judith Butler
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Beyond Gay Marriage / Michael Warner
Putting Sex to Work / Katherine M. Franke
Dismembered Selves and Wandering Wombs / Drucilla Cornell
When Renewal Repeats: Thinking against the Box / David Kennedy
Suffering the Paradoxes of Rights / Wendy Brown
Contributors
Index
About the author
Wendy Brown and Janet Halley, eds.
Summary
A reader aimed at revitalizing left legal and political critique.
