Legal Inversions: Lesbians, Gay men, and the Politics of the Law

ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS

About the Editors and Contributors The Editors DIDI HERMAN teaches law at Keele University in Britain. She is the author of Rights of Passage: Struggles for Lesbian and Gay Legal Equality (Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1994) and Normalcy on the Defensive : The Christian Right 'S Anti-Gay Agenda (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming). CARL STYCHIN teaches law at Keele University. He is the author of Law's Desire: Sexuality and the Limits of Justice (London and New York: Routledge, 1995) and of numerous articles on sexuality and legal discourse . The Contributors KATHERINE ARNUP teaches Canadian studies and women's studies in the School of Canadian Studies at Carleton University, Ottawa . She is the author of Education for Motherhood : Advice for Mothers in TwentiethCentury Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994) and of articles on lesbian mothers and child custody , donor insemination, and child-rearing advice for mothers. She is the editor of Lesbian Parenting : Living With Pride and Prejudice (Charlottetown, P.E.I.: gynergy books, 1995) . She is the mother of two girls, Jesse and Katie. SUSAN BOYD is chair in feminist legal studies at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver , where she teaches feminist legal studies and family law . She is the author of articles on child custody law, women's work, the primary care -giver presumption, feminist legal theory , and privatization themes in family law. Copyrighted Material 217 218 ABOUT THEEDITORS ANDCONTRIBUTORS PETER M. CICCHINO, BRUCE R. DEMING, ANDKATHERINE M. NICHOLSON graduated from Harvard Law School, Cambridge, in 1992. Cicchino is presently the Coordinator of the Lesbian and Gay Youth Project of the Legal Action Center for the Homeless in New York, an outreach project for gay and lesbian street youth . DAVINA COOPERteaches law at the University of Warwick. Her publications include Sexingthe City:Lesbianand GayPoliticsWithin the Activist State (London: Rivers Oram . 1994) and Powerin Struggle:Feminism,Sexuality ,and theState(Ballmoor, Bucks : Open University Press, 1995). She also does sociolegal research on local government and was an elected council member in London in the 1980s. MARYEATONis a doctoral student at Columbia Law School in New York. She has written extensively on the connections among law, sexual orientation, race, and gender. WILLIAM F. FLANAGAN is an assistant professor of law at Queen's University in Kingston . He was a member of ACT UP New York from 1987 until 1990, and served on the Board of the AIDS Committee of Toronto from 1991 to 1995. He was Chair of the Board from 1993 to 1995. LEOFLYNNis a lecturer in the School of Law in King's College of the University of London. He is a graduate of the National University of Ireland and Cambridge University. His research interests include the theory and practice of equality law. SHELLEY A. M. GAVIGAN is a member of the Faculty of Law at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University in Toronto . She is currently the Academic Director of the Intensive Program in Poverty Law at Parkdale Community Legal Services in Toronto . LESLIE J. MORANis a lecturer in law at Lancaster University , where he teaches courses in gender and the law, lesbian and gay legal studies, and law and the body. His primary research interests are legal practices of sexuality , theory , and human rights . His book, The Homosexualityof Law, will be published in 1996 by Routledge, and his current field of research is legal responses to homophobic violence . CYNTHIA PETERSEN is professor of law at the University of Ottawa where she teaches a seminar on lesbian and gay legal issues and a course on lesbian theory and feminism. Her work focuses on issues of law that affect the lives of lesbians and gay men. She will be representing EGALE (Equality for Gays and Lesbians Everywhere) , a Canadian national organization , in a forthcoming Supreme Court of Canada case involving same-sex spousal recognition. Copyrighted Material ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS 219 RUTHANN ROBSON is professor of law at the City University of New York. Her recent work includes Lesbian(Out)Law:Survival UndertheRule of Law (Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 1992), numerous articles addressing the possibilities of lesbian legal theory, and two books of lesbian fiction, as well as a forthcoming novel focusing on a lesbian attorney who represents lesbians accused of murdering their children. Copyrighted Material Copyrighted Material ...