ReConceiving Masculinity: Imagining Men's Reproductive Bodies in Law

Journal of Law and Society

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 129-149

  Sheldon, Sally ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0042222848     PISSN: 0263323X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-6478.00119     Document Type: Article

References (5)

1. M. Shildrick, Leaky Bodies and Boundaries: Feminism, Postmodernism and (Bio)ethics (1997).
2. E. Grosz, Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism (1994).
3. N. Naffine, 'The Body Bag' in Sexing the Subject of Law, eds. N. Naffine and R.J. Owens (1997) 79-94.
4. However, see C. Waldby, Aids and the Body Politic (1996) who, in her examination of the body of the person living with AIDS, notes the perceived permeability of the gay male body. The construction of male and female bodies as opposites is in itself a relatively recent innovation. See T. Laqueur, Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud (1990) for the argument that we have moved from a one-sex model (where the female body is a weaker version of the male) to a two-sex model (where the two are diametrically opposed).
5. However, see C. Waldby, Aids and the Body Politic (1996) who, in her examination of the body of the person living with AIDS, notes the perceived permeability of the gay male body. The construction of male and female bodies as opposites is in itself a relatively recent innovation. See T. Laqueur, Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud (1990) for the argument that we have moved from a one-sex model (where the female body is a weaker version of the male) to a two-sex model (where the two are diametrically opposed).