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Endowed: Regulating the Male Sexed Body
Spanning topics such as male circumcision and the regulation of state access to Viagra, this book uncovers recurring motifs that define masculinity and the male body in the legal imagination. In looking to these understandings the book engages with broader questions regarding the relationship between law and gender and masculinity and social organization.
Author(s) | By Michael Thomson. |
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Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Format | Paperback / softback |
Pages | 208 |
Published in | United Kingdom |
Published | 28 Aug 2007 |
Availability | POD |
Spanning topics such as male circumcision and the regulation of state access to Viagra, this book uncovers recurring motifs that define masculinity and the male body in the legal imagination. In looking to these understandings the book engages with broader questions regarding the relationship between law and gender and masculinity and social organization.
1. Masculinity, Reproductivity and Law 2. Short Changed?: The Law and Ethics of Male Circumcision 3. Reproductivity, the Workplace and the Gendering of the Body (Politic) 4. Viagra Nation: Sex and Prescribing Familial Masculinity 5. Regulating (for) Sperm
Michael Thomson is Professor of Law, Culture, and Society in the School of Law, Keele University.