{"product_id":"regulating-intimacy-9780691117898","title":"Regulating Intimacy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresents an approach to regulating intimacy that promises to defuse the tensions that have sparked conflict among legislators, jurists, activists, and scholars. Can law stay out of the bedroom without shielding oppression and abuse? This book present a defense of privacy, based on the idea that norms and rights are legally constructed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Cohen challenges each reader to defend his or her own normative account of liberty and equality... By proposing a role for reflexive law outside the realm of technocracy, Cohen offers the possibility that our collective efforts to solve our practical problems can aid in articulating the rights that define the kinds of persons we are.\"--Michael C. Dorf, Columbia Law Review \"Although Jean L. Cohen focuses on sexual relations, reproductive rights, and sexual discrimination, her reflexive paradigm of law applies to any sort of legal regulations... [F]or those scholars interested in a theoretically grounded approach to understanding the Court's decision in Lawrence v. Texas, as well as any type of legal regulation ... Cohen's book is worth the effort.\"--Daniel Mangis, Rhetoric and Public Affairs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix  Introduction 1  Overview 5  CHAPTER ONE: Constitutional Privacy in the Domain of Intimacy: The Battle over Reproductive Rights 22  The Feminist Egalitarian Critique of Privacy Analysis 28  The Communitarian Critique 42  Privacy as Decisional Autonomy: The Isolated, Disembedded Self? 44  Privacy and Identity 49  A Constructivist Justification of the New Privacy Rights 52  The Scope of Privacy: Bringing the Body Back In 57  Excursus: On Property, Privacy, and Legal Paradigms 64  Conclusion 74  CHAPTER TWO: Is There a Duty of Privacy? Law, Sexual Orientation, and the Dilemmas of Difference 77  The Neo-Republican Revival of Privacy Discourse 78  The \"New Military Policy\": Privacy Protection for Gays and Lesbians? 84  The Right to Privacy and the \"Epistemology of the Closet\" 86  The Construction of a Stigmatized Identity: Bowers v. Hardwick 94  The Personhood Justification: Normative Paradoxes 97  The Libertarian Solution: Morally Indifferent Sex and the Harm Principle 101  Conclusion 116  CHAPTER THREE: Sexual Harassment Law: Equality vs. Expressive Freedom and Personal Privacy? 125  The Development of Sexual Harassment Law 127  The Hegemonic Feminist Sex-Desire\/Subordination Model 129  Liberal Objections 132  Liberal Feminist Alternatives: Redefining the Harm 134  Postmodern Feminist Reframings: Criticizing Legal Normalization 136  Postmodern Feminist Reframings, Part 2: Redescribing the Role of Law 139  Legal Paradigms: An Explanation and a Way Out? 142  Conclusion 149  CHAPTER FOUR: The Debate over the Reflexive Paradigm 151  The Systems-Theoretical Model of Reflexive Law 153  The Action-Theoretical Approach: A Procedural Paradigm 157  A Proposed Synthesis: The Sociological Reflexivity Model 164  Responsive Law 169  Dangers of Reflexive\/Procedural\/Responsive Law: Arbitrariness and\/or Normalization 172  Reconceptualizing the Reflexive Paradigm: A Synthetic, Pluralist Approach 175  CHAPTER FIVE: Status or Contract? Beyond the Dichotomy 180  The Traditional Status Regime Regulating Intimacy 182  Privatization of Family Law 184  The Communitarian Critique of Private Ordering: Toward a New Status Order 187  The Limits of Status 196  Conclusion 197  Notes 205  Cases Cited 261  Bibliography 263  Index 279","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403732066647,"sku":"9780691117898","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691117898.jpg?v=1730484383","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/regulating-intimacy-9780691117898","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}