Cohen Regulating Intimacy

A New Legal Paradigm
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-2503-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
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Autoren/Hrsg.

Cohen, Jean L.

Cohen, Jean-Louis

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

Overview 5

CHAPTER ONE: Constitutional Privacy in the Domain of Intimacy: The Battle over Reproductive Rights 22

The Feminist Egalitarian Critique of Privacy Analysis 28

The Communitarian Critique 42

Privacy as Decisional Autonomy: The Isolated, Disembedded Self? 44

Privacy and Identity 49

A Constructivist Justification of the New Privacy Rights 52

The Scope of Privacy: Bringing the Body Back In 57

Excursus: On Property, Privacy, and Legal Paradigms 64

Conclusion 74

CHAPTER TWO: Is There a Duty of Privacy? Law, Sexual Orientation, and the Dilemmas of Difference 77

The Neo-Republican Revival of Privacy Discourse 78

The "New Military Policy": Privacy Protection for Gays and Lesbians? 84

The Right to Privacy and the "Epistemology of the Closet" 86

The Construction of a Stigmatized Identity: Bowers v. Hardwick 94

The Personhood Justification: Normative Paradoxes 97

The Libertarian Solution: Morally Indifferent Sex and the Harm Principle 101

Conclusion 116

CHAPTER THREE: Sexual Harassment Law: Equality vs. Expressive Freedom and Personal Privacy? 125

The Development of Sexual Harassment Law 127

The Hegemonic Feminist Sex-Desire/Subordination Model 129

Liberal Objections 132

Liberal Feminist Alternatives: Redefining the Harm 134

Postmodern Feminist Reframings: Criticizing Legal Normalization 136

Postmodern Feminist Reframings, Part 2: Redescribing the Role of Law 139

Legal Paradigms: An Explanation and a Way Out? 142

Conclusion 149

CHAPTER FOUR: The Debate over the Reflexive Paradigm 151

The Systems-Theoretical Model of Reflexive Law 153

The Action-Theoretical Approach: A Procedural Paradigm 157

A Proposed Synthesis: The Sociological Reflexivity Model 164

Responsive Law 169

Dangers of Reflexive/Procedural/Responsive Law: Arbitrariness and/or Normalization 172

Reconceptualizing the Reflexive Paradigm: A Synthetic, Pluralist Approach 175

CHAPTER FIVE: Status or Contract? Beyond the Dichotomy 180

The Traditional Status Regime Regulating Intimacy 182

Privatization of Family Law 184

The Communitarian Critique of Private Ordering: Toward a New Status Order 187

The Limits of Status 196

Conclusion 197

Notes 205

Cases Cited 261

Bibliography 263

Index 279

Über Autor(innen)

Jean L. Cohenis Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. She is a specialist in contemporary political and legal theory with special interests in democratic theory, critical theory, civil society, sovereignty, gender, and law. She is author of Class and Civil Society: The Limits of Marxian Critical Theory and coauthor of Civil Society and Political Theory.