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Sorting Sexualities : Expertise and the Politics of Legal Classification
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Title
Sorting Sexualities : Expertise and the Politics of Legal Classification / Stefan Vogler.
ISBN
9780226776934
Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2021]
Copyright Notice Date
©2021
Physical Description
1 online resource (280 p.)
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In English.
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Summary
In Sorting Sexualities, Stefan Vogler deftly unpacks the politics of the techno-legal classification of sexuality in the United States. His study focuses specifically on state classification practices around LGBTQ people seeking asylum in the United States and sexual offenders being evaluated for carceral placement-two situations where state actors must determine individuals' sexualities. Though these legal settings are diametrically opposed-one a punitive assessment, the other a protective one-they present the same question: how do we know someone's sexuality? In this rich ethnographic study, Vogler reveals how different legal arenas take dramatically different approaches to classifying sexuality and use those classifications to legitimate different forms of social control. By delving into the histories behind these diverging classification practices and analyzing their contemporary reverberations, Vogler shows how the science of sexuality is far more central to state power than we realize.
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De Gruyter University Press eBook pilot project 2021.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 19, 2022
Contents
Frontmatter
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
1: Kissing Cousins: Queerness, Crime, and the Politics of Knowing
2: Seeing Sexuality Like a State
3: Forensic Psychology, Complicit Expertise, and the Legitimation of Law
4: Insurgent Expertise and the Hybrid Network of LGBTQ Asylum
5: Asylum Seekers and Signs of Queerness
6: Sex Offenders and the Detection of Deviance
7: Queer Subjects and the Construction of Risky Countries
8: Sexual Predators and the Constitution of Dangerous Individuals
Conclusion: Sexuality, Science, and Citizenship in the Twenty-First Century
Acknowledgments
Appendix 1: Static-99R Coding Form
Appendix 2: Methodology
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