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The Queer Outside in Law

Recognising LGBTIQ People in the United Kingdom

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  • © 2021

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Editors:
  1. Senthorun Raj

    1. Keele University, Newcastle-Under-Lyme, UK

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  2. Peter Dunne

    1. University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

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  • Explores queer outsiders who remain beyond the law’s reach
  • Outlines the ways in which queer outsiders might seek to “come within” the law
  • Appeals to legal scholars, lawyers, and activists with an interest in gender, sex, sexuality, race, migration, and human rights law

Part of the book series: Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies (PSLS)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Queering Outside the (Legal) Box: LGBTIQ People in the United Kingdom

    • Senthorun Raj, Peter Dunne
    Pages 1-19

  3. Colonising, Protecting, and Punishing Queer Outsiders in Law

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
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    2. Queer Legacies of Colonialism

      • Kay Lalor
      Pages 23-47

    3. Death Zones, Comfort Zones: Queering the Refugee Question

      • Eddie Bruce-Jones
      Pages 49-78

    4. The DSSH Model and the Voice of the Silenced: Aderonke Apata—The Queer Refugee: “I Am a Lesbian”

      • S. Chelvan
      Pages 79-105

    5. Mapping the Manifestations of Exclusion: Challenging the Incarceration of Queer People

      • Felicity Adams, Fabienne Emmerich
      Pages 107-140

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 273-277
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About this book

This book contributes to current debates about “queer outsides” and “queer outsiders” that emerge from tensions in legal reforms aimed at improving the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer people in the United Kingdom. LGBTIQ people in the UK have moved from being situated as “outlaws” – through prohibitions on homosexuality or cross-dressing – to respectable “in laws” – through the emerging acceptance of same-sex families and self-identified genders. From the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in the Sexual Offences Act 1967, to the provision of a bureaucratic mechanism to amend legal sex in the Gender Recognition Act 2004, bringing LGBTIQ people “inside” the law has prompted enormous activist and academic commentary on the desirability of inclusion-focused legal and social reforms. Canvassing an array of current socio-legal debates on colonialism, refugee law, legal gender recognition, intersex autonomy and transgender equality, thecontributing authors explore “queer outsiders” who remain beyond the law’s reach and outline the ways in which these outsiders might seek to “come within” and/or “stay outside” law. Given its scope, this modern work will appeal to legal scholars, lawyers, and activists with an interest in gender, sex, sexuality, race, migration and human rights law.  

Reviews

“Raj and Dunne’s collection offers an invaluable contribution to queer legal studies and contemporary debates around legal reforms that attempt to address and improve queer and trans lives. It will most certainly serve as a helpful resource for scholars, practitioners, activists, and students working in the fields of socio-legal studies and LGBT advocacy, both inside and outside the UK.” (‪C.L. Quinan, International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, Vol. 35 (1), 2021)

“This collection provides timely and important views and analyses of the law, society, gender, and sexuality, highlighting and celebrating those living outside in law. … Dunne and Raj have ensured that their collection is unique in its focus on the pressing need for further law reform … . The edited collection urges academics and activists to continue queering the law’s recognition of sexuality and gender, and to further address the systemic inequalities faced by the most marginalised.” (Alexander Maine, International Journal of Gender, Sexuality and the Law, Vol. 11 (1), 2020)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Keele University, Newcastle-Under-Lyme, UK

    Senthorun Raj

  • University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

    Peter Dunne

About the editors

Senthorun Raj is Lecturer in Law at Keele University, UK. His recently published monograph, Feeling Queer Jurisprudence: Injury, Intimacy, Identity (Routledge, 2020), uses emotion to navigate legal interventions aimed at advancing the rights of LGBT people.


Peter Dunne is Senior Lecturer at the University of Bristol Law School, UK, and an Associate Member of Garden Court Chambers. He is currently researching the intersections of law, sexual orientation, gender identity, and sex characteristics.







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