Research Handbook on Gender, Sexuality and the Law

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

'They have edited a timely collection that offers a global perspective on ''the current gender, sexuality, and law research landscape.'' Highly recommended.'

• Contents: 1 Introduction to the Research Handbook on Gender, Sexuality and Law 1Chris Ashford and Alexander MainePART I NEW BOUNDARIES AND ACTIVISM2 From the litigants’ perspective: Wilkinson v Kitzinger and the pursuit ofmarriage equality in England and Wales 8Sue Wilkinson and Celia Kitzinger3 Formal recognition of adult relationships and legal gender in a comparativeperspective 17Jens M. Scherpe4 Diplomacy, conditionality and transnational LGBTI rights 32Kay Lalor5 Legislating and litigating same sex marriage in China 45Tingting Liu and Jingshu Zhu6 Striking women: the politics of gender, sexuality and the law in South Africa 60Melanie Judge and Dee SmythePART II IDENTITY AND STATE7 Life at the corner of poverty and sexual abjection: lewdness, indecency,and LGBTQ youth 76Libby Adler8 Same sex marriage and Article 12 of the European Convention onHuman Rights 91Paul Johnson and Silvia Falcetta9 LGBTI migration in Europe 104Alexander Schuster10 Fully recognizing both dignity and equality values under the emergentECHR right to a same sex registered partnership 120Helen Fenwick and Daniel Fenwick11 Transgender rights in Europe: EU and Council of Europe movementstowards gender identity equality 134Peter DunnePART III LIVED SOCIETY12 Normative understandings: sexual identity, stereotypes, and asylum seeking 149Alex Powell13 Feminist responses to same sex relationship recognition 164Rosemary Auchmuty14 LGBT rights and tax law: a comparative perspective 181Anthony C. Infanti15 LGBT rights in Africa 194Siri Gloppen and Lise RaknerPART IV BODILY AUTONOMY16 A perfect storm: the UK government’s failed consultation on the GenderRecognition Act 2004 211Stephen Whittle and Fiona Simkiss17 Becoming a legal proxy: the unintended consequences of informedconsent in US transgender medicine 232stef m. shuster18 (De)regulating trans identities 244Flora Renz19 ‘That’s a bit of a minefield’: supported decision making in intellectuallydisabled people’s intimate lives 256Rosie Harding and Ezgi Taşcıoğlu20 Dispute resolution, domestic violence and abuse between lesbian partners 271Maria Federica MoscatiPART V VIOLENCE AND VULNERABILITY21 The global femicide problem: issues and prospects 286Rosemary Barberet and Aneesa A. Baboolal22 Law, society and domestic violence: ‘best practice’ methodologies forevaluating integrated domestic violence services 301Nan Seuffert and Trish Mundy23 Gender and hate crime protections 317Marian Duggan24 Feminist mandated reporters question the Title IX system: when civilrights programs adopt managerial logics and protect institutional interests 330Jessica Cabrera25 Vulnerability, victimhood and sex offences 341Sharon Cowan and Rebecca HewerPART VI DEVIANCY AND ILLICIT CONSTRUCTIONS26 Kinky identity and practice in relation to the law 362Ummni Khan27 Male sex work – a gendered, (hetro)sexist approach to regulation 379Thomas Crofts28 Regulating desire in Russia 396Alexander Kondakov29 Normative behaviour, moral boundaries and the state 409Chris Ashford, Alexander Maine and Giuseppe Zago30 Deviancy and illicit constructions 425Brian SimpsonPART VII TRANSGRESSIVE BOUNDARIES31 Masculinities and families: fragmenting law’s ‘family man’ 443Richard Collier32 The healthcare rights of people living with HIV and AIDS 457Matthew Weait33 Regulating pornography: developments in evidence, theory and law 471Fiona Vera-Gray and Clare McGlynn34 Defending pornography: the case against strategic essentialism 484Alex Dymock35 Red, white, and BLACK AND BLUE: the American criminalization of BDSM 497Stephan FerrisIndex 513