1. The Epistemology of the Courthouse: Classical Antiquity in American LGBT-Rights Litigation

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: An Enticement 1
4. Part I Queer Fictions, or, Rewriting Gay Rights
5. 1. The Epistemology of the Courthouse: Classical Antiquity in American LGBT-Rights Litigation 27
6. 2 The Sexual Subaltern and Law: Postcolonial Queer Imaginaries 59
7. 3 Contesting Colonial Criminalization: Customary Law’s Significance for Decolonizing Queer Analysis 85
8. 4 Contamination to Congratulation: The Discursive and Legal Careers of the Homosexual in the United States and Cuba 109
9. Part II Queer Figures
10. 5 The Kinky Brat: Speak Pleasure to Power 133
11. 6 Oversexed, Undersexed, “No Sex”: Queer Subjects and the Anti-Chinese Movement in the Age of Capital 159
12. 7 Donorsexuality after Dobbs 184
13. Part III Policed Men
14. 8 Queer Risk Knowledge: From HIV to COVID-19 211
15. 9 Queer Intimacies and Criminal Law: Queer Legal Praxis and the UK Poppers Ban 233
16. 10 Trans Bodies, Gay Sexuality, Dysphoria: Sexual Freedom in the Bathhouse and Beyond 254
17. 11 “I Would Kiss a Man Whenever I Want, Let Some Fucker Hit Me”: Queering Narratives of Incarceration, Sexuality, and Offending 279
18. Part IV Queer Feels
19. 12 Thinking with Care: A Critique of Love across Interdisciplines 303
20. 13 Sexual Innocence in Crisis-Justice Movements: A Political Theology 320
21. 14 An Interview on Feeling Queer Jurisprudence: Injury, Intimacy, Identity 343
22. Afterword 363
23. Acknowledgments 375
24. About the Contributors 377
25. About the Editors 381
26. Index 383