The Coercive Power of the Law: Vulnerable Bodies and Boundaries of Perception - Hardcover
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The Coercive Power of the Law: Vulnerable Bodies and Boundaries of Perception
This book offers a critical exploration of the interplay between law, care ethics, and the body, emphasizing how legal systems both reflect societal values and regulate and discipline bodies and sexualities that deviate from normative standards, branding them as deviant or pathological. The authors contend that visibility--often celebrated as empowering--frequently serves as a mechanism of state...
Riley Clare Valentine, Ph.D. is a political theorist. They obtained their Ph.D. from Louisiana State University. Their books include Progressive Liberalism and Neoliberalism in American Politics: The Heterodoxical Imperative (Palgrave, 2024) and Be Gay, Do Crime: Everyday Acts of Radical Queer History (2025).
Zane McNeill, M.A, is the co-editor of Deviant Hollers: Queering Appalachian Ecologies...
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