Text and Terrain : Mapping Sexuality and Law.

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Text and Terrain : Mapping Sexuality and Law. / Chatterjee, Bela Bonita.
In: Law and Critique, Vol. 17, No. 3, 11.2006, p. 297-323.

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Chatterjee, BB 2006, 'Text and Terrain : Mapping Sexuality and Law.', Law and Critique, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 297-323. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10978-006-9004-0

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Chatterjee, B. B. (2006). Text and Terrain : Mapping Sexuality and Law. Law and Critique, 17(3), 297-323. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10978-006-9004-0

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Chatterjee BB. Text and Terrain : Mapping Sexuality and Law. Law and Critique. 2006 Nov;17(3):297-323. doi: 10.1007/s10978-006-9004-0

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Chatterjee, Bela Bonita. / Text and Terrain : Mapping Sexuality and Law. In: Law and Critique. 2006 ; Vol. 17, No. 3. pp. 297-323.

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title = "Text and Terrain : Mapping Sexuality and Law.",

abstract = "ABSTRACT. This article is concerned with the intersections of law, texts and sexuality. Drawing on recent work in theoretical cartography, this article seeks to argue that a cartographical reading of law can be usefully brought to bear on the legal analysis of sexuality. This article considers how looking to contemporary theoretical and critical cartography can help to reveal law as a process of mapping; how sexuality is mapped both within and without the law through cultural texts, and how law{\textquoteright}s encounters with the terrains mapped out by those texts might be enriched and diversified. This article seeks to consider how legal mappings of the terrains of sexuality might be sufficiently contextualised and located within a wider socio-political context, and how a specifically cartographical interpretation might reveal the potential for the law to accommodate the complexity of gendered and sexualised identities that do not easily conform to singular positionings. In order to navigate the texts and terrains of law and sexuality, we must first learn to become cartographers, and through this process, perhaps open up radical and alternative mappings.",

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