Sexuality and Equality Law

Suzanne Goldberg is Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Gender and Sexuality Law at Columbia University, USA.

Contents: Introduction; The rights and wrongs of sexuality, Jeffrey Weeks; The sexual citizen, Carl F. Stychin; Understanding lesbian and gay rights, Nicholas Bamforth; From ’sex rights’ to ’love rights’: partnership rights as human rights, Robert Wintemute; Sticky intuitions and the future of sexual orientation discrimination, Suzanne B. Goldberg; The sex discrimination argument in gay rights cases, Nan D. Hunter; Coming out and challenging the closet, 1961-1981, William N. Eskridge; Shared values of Singapore: sexual minority rights as Singaporean value, Phil C.W. Chan; Constructing the personal narratives of lesbian, gay and bisexual asylum claimants, Laurie Berg and Jenni Millbank; Black rights, gay rights, civil rights, Devon W. Carbado; The epistemic contract of bisexual erasure, Kenji Yoshino; Gender pluralisms under the transgender umbrella, Paisley Currah; What’s wrong with rights?, Dean Spade; Beyond the locker room: changing narratives on early surgery for intersex children, Alison Davidian; HIV is a virus, not a crime: ten reasons against criminal statutes and criminal prosecutions, Edwin Cameron, Scott Burris and Michaela Clayton; Secondary effects, Joe Rollins; The regulation of prostitution: contemporary contexts and comparative perspectives, Vanessa E. Munro and Marina Della Giusta; Evolving a policy - legal status, Lenore Kuo; ’Faith’ and the ’good’ liberal: the construction of female sexual subjectivity in anti-trafficking legal discourse, Ratna Kapur; What’s queer about polygamy, Margaret Denike; Name index.