Regulating the Body: Autonomy, Control and the Broken Promise of Equality in American Law - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 1479830631 ISBN 13 : 9781479830633

Editeur : New York University Press, 2025

Synopsis

How legal regulation of the body is practiced and justified Regulating the Body examines the practice of legal regulation of the body and how it has been justified. The essays in this anthology trace the ideological, moral, and religious arguments for increasing the reach of regulation and authorizing punishment for infractions. Bringing together leading scholars in the law and humanities, this volume examines the practices and discourses used to regulate the body, concentrating on scenarios where ethical and legal inconsistencies abound. The regulations examined herein range from the sale of gametes, parental rights over children’s genetic information, debates about masking, discourse regarding vaccines and abortion, anti-transgender legislation, and the control of inmates’ bodies on death row. These are situated within a cultural and political environment that values regulation and punishment over our long-standing constitutional protections. At a time where rhetoric around regulation of the body is becoming increasingly incendiary, Regulating the Body reveals worsening legal hypocrisies and unmasks the threats to both personal autonomy and the claims of law itself.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. He has also served as Mellon Professor of the Humanities for the Bard Prison Initiative. He has authored or edited more than one hundred books, including Lethal Injection and the False Promise of Human Execution.

Susanna Lee is Professor of French and Francophone Studies and Comparative Literature at Georgetown University. She is widely published in the areas of literature and moral authority, intellectual history, law and humanities, detective fiction, popular culture, and literary theory. She is the author, most recently, of Detectives in the Shadows: A Hard-Boiled History.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New York University Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1479830631
• ISBN 13: 9781479830633
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Éditeur: Sarat Austin, Lee Susanna
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