Erotic Justice - Law and the New Politics of Postcolonialism

Zusatztext 'In this elegantly argued book![Kapur] provides a rich account of a series of disruptions that! in itself! is a welcome act of political resistance.' - Social & Legal Studies'Kapur demonstrate[s] the continuing importance of gender and sexuality as sites for critical engagement with liberalism! citizenship! nationalism! and postcolonialism. These are interventions that challenge much recieved orthodoxy and they deserve careful reading.' - Social & Legal Studies Informationen zum Autor Kapur, Ratna Zusammenfassung These essays explore the ways in which law has been implicated in contemporary debates dealing with sexuality, culture and `different' subjects - including women, sexual minorities, Muslims and the transnational migrant. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; New Cosmologies: Mapping the Postcolonial Feminist Legal Project; Erotic Disruptions: Legal Narratives of Culture, Sex and Nation in India; The Tragedy of Victimization Rhetoric: Resurrecting the `Native' Subject in International/Postcolonial Feminist Legal Politics; The `Other' Side of Universality: Cross-Border Movements and the Transnational Migrant Subject.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Kapur, Ratna Kapur, Ratna (Centre for Feminist Legal Research Kapur, Kapur Ratna
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 18.07.2016
• EAN: 9781138177345
• ISBN: 978-1-138-17734-5
• Pagine: 228
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Diritto > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, LAW / General, LAW / Discrimination, LAW / Gender & the Law, Social Law, Legal profession: general, Social law and Medical law, Legal profession / practice of law: general