Feminist and Queer Legal Theory

Feminist and Queer Legal Theory: Intimate Encounters Uncomfortable Conversations is a groundbreaking collection that brings together leading scholars in contemporary legal theory. The volume explores at times contentiously convergences and departures among a variety of feminist and queer political projects. These explorations - foregrounded by legal issues such as marriage equality sexual harassment workers' rights and privacy - re-draw and re-imagine the alliances and antagonisms constituting feminist and queer theory. The essays cross a spectrum of disciplinary matrixes including jurisprudence political philosophy literary theory critical race theory women's studies and gay and lesbian studies. The authors occupy a variety of political positions vis-à-vis questions of identity rights the state cultural normalization and economic liberalism. The richness and vitality of feminist and queer theory as well as their relevance to matters central to the law and politics of our time are on full display in this volume.