AIDS and the Sexuality of Law: Ironic Jurisprudence

by Joe Rollins

AIDS and the Sexuality of Law investigates the role that HIV/AIDS has played in the legal construction of sexuality. AIDS and its metaphors have been judicially enlisted to patrol the boundaries of heterosexuality, producing flawed understandings of HIV/AIDS and sexuality. The proliferation of this flawed knowledge through judicial discourse has had a profound impact on the way sexuality is understood. Even more fundamentally, closer analysis exposes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312240066
• ISBN13: 9780312240066
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.4"