The queer outside in law [electronic resource] : recognising LGBTIQ people in the United Kingdom / Senthorun Raj, Peter Dunne, editors.

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The queer outside in law [electronic resource] : recognising LGBTIQ people in the United Kingdom / Senthorun Raj, Peter Dunne, editors.

9783030488307 (electronic bk.)
3030488306 (electronic bk.)
9783030488291 (print)

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]

English

1 online resource (x, 277 pages).

10.1007/978-3-030-48830-7 doi

KD4097 .Q44 2020

342.41087

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-legal debates on colonialism, refugee law, legal gender recognition, intersex autonomy and transgender equality, the contributing authors explore "queer outsiders" who remain beyond the laws reach and outline the ways in which these outsiders might seek to "come within" and/or "stay outside" law. Given its scope, this modern work will appeal to legal scholars, lawyers, and activists with an interest in gender, sex, sexuality, race, migration and human rights law. Senthorun Raj is Lecturer in Law at Keele University, UK. His recently published monograph, Feeling Queer Jurisprudence: Injury, Intimacy, Identity (Routledge, 2020), uses emotion to navigate legal interventions aimed at advancing the rights of LGBT people. Peter Dunne is Senior Lecturer at the University of Bristol Law School, UK, and an Associate Member of Garden Court Chambers. He is currently researching the intersections of law, sexual orientation, gender identity, and sex characteristics.

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