The intertwining of our clothes and our Constitution raise fundamental questions of hierarchy, sexuality, and democracy. From our hairstyles to our shoes, constitutional considerations both constrain and confirm our daily choices. In turn, our attire and appearance provide multilayered perspectives on the United States Constitution and its interpretations. Our garments often raise First Amendment issues of expression or religion, but they also prompt questions of equality on the basis of gender, race, and sexuality. At work, in court, in schools, in prisons, and on the streets, our clothes and grooming provoke constitutional controversies. Additionally, the production, trade, and consumption of apparel implicates constitutional concerns including colonial sumptuary laws, slavery, wage and hour laws, and current notions of free trade. The regulation of what we wear - or don't - is ubiquitous. From a noted constitutional scholar and commentator, this book examines the rights to expression and equality, as well as the restraints on government power, as they both limit and allow control of our most personal choices of attire and grooming.

Product Description: Theorizing sexual freedom is a difficult task; as a legal goal, it is neither universal nor absolute. Sexual freedom encompasses notions of liberty, dignity and autonomy. It also incorporates equality for sexual and gender minorities...read more

Product Description: The legal regulation of family forms is a global phenomenon and changes in the 'traditional' family have provoked a variety of legal responses. Same-sex marriage, civil partnerships and other legal avenues to recognize intimate relationships between adults have become a feature of many jurisdictions and a subject for debate in most...read more

Product Description: Issues of sexual rights and sexual regulations are at the forefront of legal controversies and theorizing around the globe. Sexual minorities make claims on government to recognize family and relationships, even as the criminalization of a wide variety of sexual acts remains contentious...read more

Product Description: The continued criminalization of same-sex sexual acts, variously labeled sodomy, buggery, or the crime against nature, is inconsistent throughout the world. The criminalization of other sexual acts, such as public sex, commercial sex, or HIV-transmission, is more common...read more

A collection of linked short stories by one of America's leading lesbian writers follows the struggles of a group of unique and memorable characters as they search for love, acceptance, and happiness as lesbians in contemporary America. Reprint. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Best Poetry of 1999-Library JournalWell known by readers of gay and lesbian fiction for her award-winning short story collections and novels; notorious in the legal profession as the nation's "foremost authority on lesbians and law" (Village Voice), a professor at the City University of New York, a young mother raising a son, Ruthann Robson's breadth of experience is unique among American poets...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Indefinite identities and a troubled search for regeneration mark a sensitive study of the lives and the created personas of two women in New York, a law student working as a woman's escort and a struggling actress. Lambda Literary Award finalist. Reprint.

In Sappho Goes to Law School Ruthann Robson weaves together concepts taken from traditional legal theory, postmodernism, feminist theory, and queer theory, as well as her own personal experience in the courtroom and classroom, to take stock of the complexities of lesbian identity and the often detrimental ways in which legal scholarship approaches lesbianism.

Her legal defense of a lesbian accused of killing her own child and her involvement in a case of sexual harassment bring to a boil the inner conflicts of a lesbian attorney--especially her feelings about her own mother

Discusses the legal aspects of homosexuality in such areas as discrimination, education, and health (view table of contents)

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Thirteen stories deal with a freelance photographer, lesbian relationships, a struggling artist, secrets, gamblers, and parents

Product Description: What are the possibilities of lesbian theory being adopted by the legal system? Lesbian theories are being formulated in literary criticism, sociology and philosophy, but legal theory, perhaps predictably, has been relatively intransigent...read more