Ethics beyond immanence: rupturing law’s method through sex research
Brooks, V. 2016. Ethics beyond immanence: rupturing law’s method through sex research. PhD thesis University of Westminster Law https://doi.org/10.34737/9z8wv
| Title | Ethics beyond immanence: rupturing law’s method through sex research |
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| Type | PhD thesis |
| Authors | Brooks, V. |
| Abstract | The law defines the sexuality of bodies in limited terms. The law draws lines across the body which force it into identification and categorisation (male, female, straight, gay, human, non-human). These definitions conflict with the materialities of the body and the materialities of the encounter of sex, which are inclined to ‘push’ at and reterritorialize these boundaries. Legal and ethical frames restrict the ability of law and of research to access the encounter of sex, where bodies push these limits by moving, touching, kissing, fucking, caressing and becoming. I claim that ethics as contextual laws that derive from encounters carry the potential to subvert the subjugation of bodies from law’s inside. This subversion is dependant on establishing access to the encounter, which I argue is possible through methodologically radical sexuality research. The researcher’s body is also a sexed body, and I claim that by situating, and tracing the process of situating the ‘I’ within research, the ‘soul’ of the individual finds itself connected to the collective, through |
| Year | 2016 |
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