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This innovative and thought-provoking Research Handbook explores not only current debates in the area of gender, sexuality and the law but also points the way for future socio-legal research and scholarship. It presents wide-ranging insights and debates from across the globe, including Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Australia, with contributions from leading scholars and activists alongside exciting emergent voices. Chapters address a range of current arguments and issues, providing an enhanced theoretical framework and evolving understanding from a variety of feminist and queer perspectives. Relationship recognition debates and LGBT activism and scholarship are examined and discussed, as well as questions around bodily autonomy, kink identities, pornography and healthcare access rights. Research exploring the lived experiences of people facing challenges such as domestic violence, asylum, femicide and hate crime is also assessed. This Research Handbook will be an invaluable resource for researchers and students in the fields of law, sexuality and gender, as well as family studies, sociology, media and cultural studies, and medicine. Activists will also benefit from its scholarly insight into key policy debates and future strategy. Contributors include: L. Adler, C. Ashford, R. Auchmuty, A.A. Baboolal, R. Barberet, J. Cabrera, R. Collier, S. Cowan, T. Crofts, M. Duggan, P. Dunne, A. Dymock, S. Falcetta, D. Fenwick, H. Fenwick, S. Ferris, S. Gloppen, R. Harding, R. Hewer, A.C. Infanti, P. Johnson, M. Judge, U. Khan, C. Kitzinger, A. Kondakov, K. Lalor, T. Liu, A. Maine, C. McGlynn, M.F. Moscati, T. Mundy, A. Powell, L. Rakner, F. Renz, J.M. Scherpe, A. Schuster, S.M. Schuster, N. Seuffert, F. Simkiss, B. Simpson, D. Smythe, E. Tascioglu, F. Vera-Gray, M. Weait, S. Whittle, S. Wilkinson, G. Zago

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'An important and timely collection that demonstrates the enduring value of gender and sexuality for legal and other scholars working across a wide range of issues. While revisiting and recasting gay rights and feminist insights, it also opens up and broadens the field - conceptually and geographically - and acknowledges and engages with debates, rather than attempting to resolve them. In true queer style it troubles boundaries and provides signposts rather than destinations.' -- Daniel Monk, Birkbeck, University of London, UK 'This book is a very useful resource for both students and academics wanting to consider where the field sits at this historical moment in which il/liberal states struggle with their own internal contradictions and the rise of populist movements. In the face of these forces, it charts paths for future socio-legal scholarship through theoretical and empirical engagement with activist struggles in the west and global south, foregrounding intersectionality in legal analysis around identity, lived experience, bodily autonomy, vulnerability and transgression.' -- Alex Sharpe, Keele University, UK

'An important intervention in the persistent question of how we can use the law for sexual liberation without being used by the law. This volume interrogates who we are across multiple identities, what law is or has been in numerous jurisdictions, and what sexual, gender, and human liberation might be in our lifetimes. Not beholden to any particular theoretical perspective or doctrinal imperative, this collection will serve as a vital springboard for researchers in sex, gender, and legal struggles.' -- Ruthann Robson, City University of New York School of Law, US 'An important and timely collection that demonstrates the enduring value of gender and sexuality for legal and other scholars working across a wide range of issues. While revisiting and recasting gay rights and feminist insights, it also opens up and broadens the field - conceptually and geographically - and acknowledges and engages with debates, rather than attempting to resolve them. In true queer style it troubles boundaries and provides signposts rather than destinations.' -- Daniel Monk, Birkbeck, University of London, UK 'This book is a very useful resource for both students and academics wanting to consider where the field sits at this historical moment in which il/liberal states struggle with their own internal contradictions and the rise of populist movements. In the face of these forces, it charts paths for future socio-legal scholarship through theoretical and empirical engagement with activist struggles in the west and global south, foregrounding intersectionality in legal analysis around identity, lived experience, bodily autonomy, vulnerability and transgression.' -- Alex Sharpe, Keele University, UK

'They have edited a timely collection that offers a global perspective on ''the current gender, sexuality, and law research landscape.'' Highly recommended.' -- C Pinto, CHOICE 'It provides a comprehensive, contemporary and provoking account of the field that is truly socio-legal in nature and places front and centre the voices of some of those most directly affected by the law and its institutions.' -- Ilona Cairns, Edinburgh Law Review 'An important intervention in the persistent question of how we can use the law for sexual liberation without being used by the law. This volume interrogates who ''we'' are across multiple identities, what law is or has been in numerous jurisdictions, and what sexual, gender, and human liberation might be in our lifetimes. Not beholden to any particular theoretical perspective or doctrinal imperative, this collection will serve as a vital springboard for researchers in sex, gender, and legal struggles.' --Ruthann Robson, City University of New York, School of Law, US 'An important and timely collection that demonstrates the enduring value of gender and sexuality for legal and other scholars working across a wide range of issues. While revisiting and recasting gay rights and feminist insights, it also opens up and broadens the field - conceptually and geographically - and acknowledges and engages with debates, rather than attempting to resolve them. In true queer style it troubles boundaries and provides signposts rather than destinations.' -- Daniel Monk, Birkbeck, University of London, UK 'This book is a very useful resource for both students and academics wanting to consider where the field sits at this historical moment in which il/liberal states struggle with their own internal contradictions and the rise of populist movements. In the face of these forces, it charts paths for future socio-legal scholarship through theoretical and empirical engagement with activist struggles in the west and global south, foregrounding intersectionality in legal analysis around identity, lived experience, bodily autonomy, vulnerability and transgression.' -- Alex Sharpe, Keele University, UK

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

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