Contents: Introduction; Part I Opening the Conversation: Sexual traffic, Gayle Rubin with Judith Butler; Remembering Foucault, Jeffrey Weeks. Part II Hierarchies of Sex: Homosexuality and the PIB argument, John Corvino; A woman's right to be spanked: testing the limits of tolerance of SM in the socio-legal imaginary, Ummni Khan; Sexual democracy, Ruthann Robson; The dignity of sex, Libby Adler. Part III Nation: Queer times, queer assemblages, Jasbir K. Puar; Toward a gay-friendly China? Legal implications of transition for gays and lesbians, John Balzano; Beyond the brother: radical freedom, A.J. Barnard-Naudé; Sexual citizenship: articulating citizenship, identity, and the pursuit of the good life in urban Brazil, Tomi Castle. Part IV Sexual Identities: Constructing the personal narratives of lesbian, gay and bisexual asylum claimants, Laurie Berg and Jenni Millbank; 'At the time she was a man': the temporal dimension of identity construction, Robin Conley. Part V The Politics of Sexual 'Progress': Closet cases: 'conscientious objection' to lesbian and gay legal equality, Carl F.

Stychin; Sexual politics and social change, Darren Lenard Hutchinson. Part VI Queering the Legal Profession: Queering legal education: a project of theoretical discovery, Kim Brooks and Debra Parkes; Judicial bodies as sexual bodies: a tale of two portraits, Leslie J. Moran; The construction of homosexuality in New Zealand judicial writing, Edward Clark; Be professional!, Dean Spade; Name index.