Gender, Sexuality and Law

Edited by Chris Ashford, Professor of Law and Society, Law School, Northumbria University and Alexander Maine, City St George’s, University of London, UK

• ContentsIntroduction to Gender, Sexuality and Law 9Chris Ashford and Alexander MainePART I THEORIES OF LAW, GENDER AND SEXUALITY1 Feminist legal theories 16Laura Graham2 Queer Legal Theory 38Alexander Maine3 Critical Race Theory and intersectionality 61Senthorun RajPART II CRIMINALISATION4 Decriminalisation of homosexuality 84Chris Ashford5 Consent, sexual violence, and the law 103Cameron Giles and Hannah Bows6 Hate crime 125Alex Powell7 The legal regulation of sex work 142Thomas Crofts8 Pornography and expression 167Chris Ashford and Alexander MainePART III RIGHTS AND DISSENT9 Transgender jurisprudence 189Flora Renz and Avi Boukli10 Relationship recognition 208Alexander Maine11 Parenthood and assisted reproduction 230Alan Brown12 Abortion 250Laura Graham13 Gender and the legal professions 273Jessica Guth14 Care, identity and the workplace 289Eugenia Caracciolo di Torella

‘A textbook about gender and sexuality is welcome and long overdue. Uncompromising in its radical perspectives and wide ranging and accessible, this ground-breaking textbook brings together theoretical rigour with grounded practical applications and demonstrates the centrality of gender and sexuality to debates in family and criminal law, civil liberties and human rights. A key text for any law student interested in understanding and seeking tools and methods for thinking rigorously about law and social change.’