Law, Gender Identity, and the Brain

Law, Gender Identity, and the Brain
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 201
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ISBN-10 : 9781003824152
ISBN-13 : 1003824153
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Book Synopsis Law, Gender Identity, and the Brain by : Aileen Kennedy

Download or read book Law, Gender Identity, and the Brain written by Aileen Kennedy and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges law’s reliance on neurology’s brain-sex binary. The brain has become the latest candidate in a historical search for a reliable and fixed biological marker of ‘true sex’ that has permeated every aspect of Western culture, including law. As definitions of the sexed and gendered body have become ever more contentious, the development and dissemination of brain-sex theories have come to dominate popular understanding of LGBTI+ identities. But, this book argues, the brain is no more helpful than earlier biological measures in ensuring just outcomes. Examining how law determines and differentiates ‘male’ and ‘female’ in two contested areas of sexed identity –through a discussion of Australian cases authorising medical interventions to alter the embodied sex characteristics of transgender minors and intersex minors –the book demonstrates an incoherence in the legal understanding of gender identity development. As the brain too fails as a convincing biological anchor for the binary sex categories of male and female, law must, it is argued, retreat from its aspiration to create, define, and regulate artificially bounded sex categories of male and female. This book will be of great interest to scholars and students in a range of disciplines who are working at the intersection of law, gender, and sexuality.


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