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Ruling Sexuality: Law, Expertise, and the Making of Sexual Knowledge

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œRuling Sexuality: Law, Expertise, and the Making of Sexual Knowledge, brings together approaches from the sociologies of science, law, and sexualities to examine how the institutions of law and science jointly render sexual subjects legible to state institutions by measuring and categorizing sexualities. Through the comparative study of asylum claims...

Keyword:

science, classification, knowledge, law, and sexuality

Subject:

Sociology

Creator:

Stefan Vogler

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

09/30/2019

Date Modified:

11/20/2019

Date Created:

1/1/2018

Resource Type:

Dissertation
Ruling Sexuality: Law, Expertise, and the Making of Sexual Knowledge

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Drawing on over 400 legal decisions and other documentary materials, 40 semi-structured interviews with legal and scientific actors, and hundreds of hours of multi-sited ethnographic observation, I offer a fine-grained analysis of how expert evaluative practices become institutionalized in legal settings and result in divergent understandings of sexuality within the...

Keyword:

science, classification, knowledge, law, and sexuality

Subject:

Sociology

Creator:

Stefan Vogler

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

06/23/2019

Date Modified:

06/23/2019

Date Created:

2018-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation