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...Eric Fassin © 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Eric Fassin is professor of sociology in the Department of Social Sciences at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. He is coeditor (with Daniel Borrillo and Marcela Iacub) of Au-delà du PaCS (1999)and author of Same Sex, Different...

...Sharon Marcus Undead texts are works that help to found fields only to find themselves eventually rejected by specialists and embraced by novices. Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex is an exemplary Undead text: hailed as a classic when it was first published in 1949, dismissed by many scholars...

... typically require a small rent or payment for service. These rents are critically important to the basic operation of homeless shelters, but in practice they close such services off to the most vulnerable ( O’Neill 2010 ). 10 The overwhelming majority of homeless men participating in this sex economy...

... crimes such as domestic violence, sexual assault, and sex work or sex trafficking. Thus women, sex workers, and gender-nonconforming people may be disproportionately excluded from any benefits of bodycam surveillance. But privacy and dignity interests, as well as investigatory realities, preclude...

...Matthew Chin In this article, the author complicates the current positioning of Jamaica within international discourses as exceptionally homophobic by focusing on the island in the 1970s as a site through which to understand how the struggle for sexual agency among subjects of same sex desire...

... and citizenship eligibility and how it uses law to mold diverse intimacies to fit normative models of domesticity and binary sex/gender. By asking what social imaginaries and intimate relations are foreclosed as a consequence, the article interprets these proliferations of law and bureaucratic discretion as signs...

...Éric Fassin; Judith Surkis A public scandal that followed the 2005 exhibition of Tanja Ostojić's remake of Courbet's L'origine du monde revealed the contemporary sexual politics of the European Union. This essay analyzes how what was at stake in this “obscenity” was not the sex but rather...

..., the ordering of sex and sexuality, and the circulation of forms, imaginaries, goods, ideas, and people) played such decisive roles in this process of human collision and entanglement, it is logical that postcolonial studies has made them the privileged objects of its inquiry. Copyright 2011 by Duke...

... out on accused sex offenders. As soon as inmates get word that one of their ranks has been charged with sexual assault, they rush to apply a lei do talião (lex talionis), a form of punishment in which the offender is made to suffer an injury comparable to that which he perpetrated. 2 Rare...

... politics was thus part and parcel of politics — as American, so to speak, as apple pie. Sex mattered. Not any more. The point is not simply that Schwarzenegger was elected gover- nor, despite the allegations. After all, both Clarence Thomas and Bill Clinton sur- vived the sexual scandals they were...

... The former seeks to unravel the mystery of Islam to a Western audience, whereas the latter aims to inform white gay sex-tourists about the region. The larger mission, as I describe below, is to liberate Arab and Muslim “gays and lesbians” from...

...Mary Anne Case © 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Mary Anne Case is a professor of law at the University of Chicago Law School and the author of “Disaggregating Gender from Sex and Sexual Orientation: The Effeminate Man in the Law and Feminist Jurisprudence”( Yale Law Journal...

... crawling” [driving slowly to pick up sex workers] in King’s Cross London between 1982 and 1985. The area around the King’s Cross train station was the new epicenter of London street prostitution after the police drove women out of Soho. Augmenting this local migration were street prostitutes arriving from...

... extensive residence & anthropological research in Japan. Booth , Mark . 1983. Camp. London: Quartet Books. Bullough , Vern L. , and Bonnie Bullough. 1993. Cross-Dressing, Sex, and Gender. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Dekker , Rudolf M. , and Lotte C. van...

... recognition of same-sex marriages would radically diverge from and threaten millennia of teaching and common sense about the meaning and purposes of marriage. But other American courts and political actors have been influenced by alterna- tive narratives of the history of sexual regulation...

... versions of the essay. Finally, thanks to the Swedish Research Council for financial support. Adams, Vincanne, and Stacey Leigh Pigg. 2005 . Introduction: The moral object of sex. In Sex in development: Science, sexuality, and morality in global perspective , edited by Vincanne Adams and Stacey...

... Safe Sex: When Pedagogy and Pornography Collide,” in Inside/ Out: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories, ed. Diana Fuss (New York: Routledge, 1991), 373. 6. Gruen, Keith Haring, 65. 3 3 1 Public Culture U.S. sexual history when...

.... 1971 . Problems in general linguistics , translated by Mary Elizabeth Meek. Coral Gables, Fla.: University of Miami Press. Berlant, Lauren. 1997 . The queen of America goes to Washington City: Essays on sex and citizenship . Durham,N.C.: Duke University Press. ———. 1998 . Intimacy. Critical...

... among men and women in the general population, mineworkers, and sex workers, was 20 percent, 37 percent, 29 percent and 69 percent, respectively.” Brian Williams, Dirk Taljaard, Catherine M. Camp- bell, E. Gouws, L. Ndhlovu, J. Van Dam, M. Caraël...

.... Thompson, who was not exactly an ideological fellow traveler with your advi- sor, Stone. Thompson’s scathing review of Stone’s magisterial Family, Sex, and Marriage, “Happy Families” (Radical History Review, 1979), foregrounded their differences. TL: Their differences weren’t so clear...