The queer outside in law recognising LGBTIQ people in the United Kingdom / [electronic resource] :

• 其他作者：
  • Raj, Senthorun.
  • Dunne, Peter.
  • SpringerLink (Online service)
• 其他題名：
  • Palgrave socio-legal studies.
• 出版： Cham : Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
• 叢書名： Palgrave socio-legal studies
• 主題： Sexual minorities--Legal status, laws, etc.--Great Britain. , Socio-legal Studies. , Gender Studies. , Human Rights. , Critical Criminology. , Prison and Punishment. , Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights.
• ISBN： 9783030488307 (electronic bk.) 、 9783030488291 (paper)
• FIND@SFXID: CGU
• 資料類型: 電子書
• 內容註: Chapter 1: Queering Outside the (Legal) Box: LGBTIQ People in the United Kingdom -- PART I: Colonising, Protecting, and Punishing Queer Outsidersin Law -- Chapter 2: Queer Legacies of Colonialism -- Chapter 3: Death Zones, Comfort Zones: Queering the Refugee Question -- Chapter 4: The DSSH model and the Voice of the Silenced:AderonkeApata: The Queer Refugee: I am a lesbian -- Chapter 5: Vulnerable and Threatening: varieties of exclusion for incarcerated Queer prisoners -- PART II: Queering the Outsides of Legal Gender and Sex -- Chapter 6: Genders that don't matter: Non-binary people and the Gender Recognition Act 2004 -- Chapter 7: Queering the Queer/Non-Queer Binary: Problematizing the "I" in LGBTI+ -- Chapter 8: The Best Place on the Planet to be Trans? Transgender Equality and Legal Consciousness in Scotland -- Chapter 9: Coming Inside and/or Playing Outside: The (Legal) Futures of LGBTIQ Rights in the United Kingdom.
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• 摘要註: "This collection is a crucial reminder that LGBTIQ+ rights in the UK (and beyond) have been anything but achieved, and the narrative of linear 'progress' on the queer rights front is simply a myth. Many battles remain to be fought and won, and we need the critical voices in this collection to help us identify ways in which we can do precisely that" - Nuno Ferreira, Professor of Law, University of Sussex, UK. "This landmark collection provides an important contribution to queer legal scholarship. Raj and Dunne have assembled a terrific line-up of authors providing important insights into the ways that law has sought to transform queers from 'outlaws' into 'in laws.' In doing so, the collection problematises the powerful ways - both in civil and criminal law - that law can seek to surround, suffocate, and silence identities and the struggle that can then ensue. This is therefore a collection about struggle and power, and serves as an important primer for all those who seek to explore and challenge the impact of law on contemporary queer citizenship" - Chris Ashford, Professor of Law, Northumbria University, UK. This book contributes to current debates about "queer outsides" and "queer outsiders" that emerge from tensions in legal reforms aimed at improving the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer people in the United Kingdom. LGBTIQ people in the UK have moved from being situated as "outlaws" - through prohibitions on homosexuality or cross-dressing - to respectable "in laws" - through the emerging acceptance of same-sex families and self-identified genders. From the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in the Sexual Offences Act 1967, to the provision of a bureaucratic mechanism to amend legal sex in the Gender Recognition Act 2004, bringing LGBTIQ people "inside" the law has prompted enormous activist and academic commentary on the desirability of inclusion-focused legal and social reforms. Canvassing an array of current socio-l
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