The war on sex / David M. Halperin and Trevor Hoppe, editors.

Date:
2017
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"The past fifty years are conventionally understood to have witnessed an uninterrupted expansion of sexual rights and liberties in the United States. This...collection tells a different story: while progress has been made in marriage equality, reproductive rights, access to birth control, and other areas, government and civil society are waging a war on stigmatized sex by means of law, surveillance, and social control. The contributors document the history and operation of sex offender registries and the criminalization of HIV, as well as highly punitive measures against sex work that do more to harm women than to combat human trafficking. They reveal that sex crimes are punished more harshly than other crimes, while new legal and administrative regulations drastically restrict who is permitted to have sex. By examining how the ever-intensifying war on sex affects both privileged and marginalized communities, the essays collected here show why sexual liberation is indispensable to social justice and human rights."-- Back cover.

Publication/Creation

Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2017.

Physical description

xi, 497 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm

Contributors

Contents

The new pariahs : sex, crime, and punishment in America / Roger N. Lancaster -- Sympathy for the devil : why progressives haven't helped the sex offender, why they should, and how they can / Judith Levine -- Queer disavowal : controversial crimes and building abolition / Owen Daniel McCarter, Erica R. Meiners, and R Noll -- A new iron closet : failing to extend the spirit of Lawrence v. Texas to prisons and prisoners / J. Wallace Borchert -- Seeing the sex and Justice landscape through the Vatican's eyes : the war on gender and the seamless garment of sexual rights / Mary Anne Case -- Sex panic, psychiatry, and the expansion of the carceral state / Regina Kunzel -- The creation of the modern sex offender / Scott De Orio -- For what they might do : a sex offender exception to the Constitution / Laura Mansnerus -- The "hooker teacher" tells all / Melissa Petro -- Carceral politics as gender justice? The "traffic in women" and neoliberal circuits of crime, sex, and rights / Elizabeth Bernstein -- California's Proposition 35 and the trouble with trafficking / Carol Queen and Penelope Saunders -- HIV : prosecution or prevention? HIV is not a crime / Sean Strub -- HIV monsters : gay men, intentional HIV infection, and the new political economy of HIV / Gregory Tomso -- HIV care as social rehabilitation : medical governance, the AIDS surveillance industry, and therapeutic citizenship in neoliberal Taiwan / Hans Tao-Ming Huang -- The new war on sex : a report from the global front lines / Maurice Tomlinson -- Building a movement for justice : Doe v. Jindal and the campaign against Louisiana's crime Against nature statute / Alexis Agathocleous -- Bringing sex to the table of justice / Amber Hollibaugh.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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    History of Medicine
    TPO.6.T
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  • 9780822363514
  • 0822363518
  • 9780822363675
  • 0822363674