Böcker i Social Justice-serien

In unintended ways, law reforms that pursue equality may in fact harm their intended beneficiaries or worsen the disadvantage of other groups. Tackling these important issues beyond the boundaries that often confine legal scholarship, this book conducts an interdisciplinary consideration of efforts to advance equality. It explores the developments, challenges, and consequences that arise from law reforms aiming to deliver equality in the areas of sexuality, kinship, and family relations. With an international array of contributors, After Legal Equality: Family, Sex, Kinship will be an invaluable resource for those with interests in this area.

Based on author's dissertation (Ph.D.--University of Kent, 2012) --Acknowledgements.

A rich collection of interdisciplinary essays, this book explores the question: what is to be found at the intersection of the sensorium and law¿s empire? Examining the problem of how legal rationalities try to grasp what can only be sensed through the body, these essays problematize the Cartesian framework that has long separated the mind from the body, reason from feeling, and the human from the animal. In doing so, they consider how the sensorium can operate, variously, as a tool of power, or as a means of countering the exercise of regulatory force.