Law, Politics and the Gender Binary

This book gathers together contributions by experts to pin down the relation between institutions and the gender binary. Centrally, it examines the way in which the present-day gender binary is shored up by the conceptualization and regulation of sex and gender at a societal and institutional level.

Introduction 2. The Politicization of Sexuality (Ingrid Salvatore) 3. Territorializing Gender (Valeria Venditti) 4. Can Human Rights Exist Without Gender? LGBTI Issues and the Council of Europe (Francesca Romana Ammaturo) 5. Linguistic Traps: Identity and Differences through Institutions (Carlotta Cossutta) 6. Subjectivity, Gender and Agency (Petr Agha) 7. How the Inheritance System Thinks? Queering Kinship, Gender and Care in the Legal Sphere (Antu Sorainen)