Review
'In his opus, Transgender Jurisprudence: Dysphoric Bodies of Law, Sharpe takes on the monumental task of integrating, synthesising, and deconstructing transgender jurisprudence as it has evolved in common law traditions. The result is quite fascinating, successfully breaking the case law down into several predictive models which serve as useful tools for practitioner and theorist alike. 'Adelaide Law Review, 2003'
Product Description
This book moves beyond liberal law reform and is the first to interrogate the transgender/law relation in a sustained and critical manner. Its concern is to map contemporary legal regulation of transgender bodies within a common law tradition. The specific focus is upon ideas of transgender that define the terms of this regime. The book deals with the structure, history and institutions of production of this lexicon. In doing so, the book makes the reader more aware of the legal enterprise and its relationship with medical science. This book, through an analysis and critique of the transgender/law relation, also considers the excessive work law requires the transgender body to do in furtherance of much wider regulatory strategies around sexual practice and gender performance. That is to say, it demonstrates the ways in which transgender jurisprudence is an important site for wider sexual and gender politics. In this regard, the book compliments/challenges feminist and gay and lesbian legal theory and practice. Finally, the book informs those who engage with the law, within the academy or beyond, of the parameters of the terms of that intervention and of its limitations and possibilities.
See all Product Description
With an Amazon.co.uk Gift Certificate, you can get them what they want (even if you don't know what that is). 
Amazon Home
Make sure you always get what you want with an Amazon.co.uk 
