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



This book discusses how legal discourse shapes sexual experience, expression, and identity. It focuses on three topics: anti-gay hate crime laws, same-sex sexual harassment, and same-sex marriage. It 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... more details
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  • Discusses how legal discourse shapes sexual experience, expression, and identity
  • Focuses on anti-gay hate crime laws, same-sex sexual harassment, and same-sex marriage
  • 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


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Author Yvonne Zylan
Format Hardcover
ISBN 9780199735082
Publication Date 12/05/2011
Publisher Oxford University Press
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This book discusses how legal discourse shapes sexual experience, expression, and identity. It focuses on three topics: anti-gay hate crime laws, same-sex sexual harassment, and same-sex marriage. It 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.

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.
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