States of Passion

States of Passion Law, Identity, and the Social Construction of Desire

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In States of Passion: Law, Identity and the Social Construction of Desire, Professor Yvonne Zylan explores the role of legal discourse in shaping sexual experience, sexual expression, and sexual identity. The book focuses on three topics: anti-gay hate crime laws, same-sex sexual harassment, and same-sex marriage, examining how sexuality is socially constructed through the institutionally-specific production of legal discourse. States of Passion argues that law's power to authorize specific discourses and practices of love, desire, hatred, fear, and vulnerability remain grounded in the powerful discourses and institutional practices that mark law as dispassionate, cerebral, and fundamentally procedural. States of Passion contends that those states of passion we experience in our daily lives as particularly significant-to our sense of self, to our collective and social identities, and to our ideas about the body and its dictates-increasingly have as much to do with the state as they do with passion.

Book information

ISBN: 9780199735082
Publisher: OUP USA
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 342.73087
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 324
Weight: 522g
Height: 145mm
Width: 216mm
Spine width: 28mm