Adolescent Sexuality:

This chapter examines recent Supreme Court cases about issues of privacy rights pertaining to adolescent mothers, and also examines various presumptions the Court makes regarding adolescents. These case decisions are viewed in conjunction with a review of perspectives on Black adolescent parents. Overall, we contend that the Court's decisions do not take into consideration cultural differences within our society. Adolescents bear the brunt of this cultural dissonance and cannot look to the courts for understanding or increasing access, Sexuality, possible pregnancy, and childrearing for adolescents require legal provision for the rights of teens so they and their families can make appropriate decisions that respect privacy and cultural identity.     

Sexuality and Succession Law: Beyond Formal Equality

This article endeavours to open up a dialogue between succession law and the field of gender, sexuality and the law. It presents a detailed analysis of five cases concerning inheritance disputes relating to lesbians or gay men. The sexuality of the parties in the cases is ‘doctrinally irrelevant’ but the analysis demonstrates the significance of sexuality in the resolution of the legal disputes. In doing so it identifies how legal discourse remains a critical site for the production of societal norms and in particular how lesbian and gay perspectives reveal the gendered assumptions underlying a number of key succession law doctrines. It emphasises the importance of taking difference seriously and the limits to formal legal equality.     

Special Issue: Gender,Sexuality and Human Rights

This brief article introduces a special issue of Feminist Legal Studies addressing gender, sexuality and human rights, and comprising papers drawn from an E.S.R.C.-funded workshop held at the University of Kent in June 2004 on the theme of “Gender-Auditing the Human Rights Act”. The article begins by situating the themes of the special issue within the broader context of feminist engagement with rights discourse. It goes on to consider the introduction of the Human Rights Act 1998 into the U.K. with a view to assessing its implications in terms of engendering a positive legal and political culture for equality-seeking initiatives. The article concludes with a survey of the contributions to the special issue, highlighting the possibilities for feminist theory and strategy posed by a wider intersectional engagement with rights issues.     

Adolescent Sexuality and Positive Well-Being: A Group-Norms Approach

The link between adolescent sexual activity and psychological well-being is a controversial issue in developmental psychology. This cross-sectional study investigated the association between three aspects of teenage sexuality (genital sexual experience, age of sexual onset, and number of sex partners) and positive well-being (hedonic, eudaimonic, and overall) in a sample of 475 high school seniors (48% female; 89% White) from a single school district in a rural upstate New York community. Based on a group-norms perspective, we expected higher well-being in adolescents whose sexual behaviors followed group-normative patterns. As expected, sexually experienced and on-time (at age 16) students reported higher well-being than sexually inexperienced or late-onset (17 or older) students. Contrary to expectations, a high number of sex partners and an early sexual onset (15 or younger) were not related to lower well-being. Early-onset girls reported higher levels of well-being than normative-onset peers. Findings are discussed in relationship to theoretical perspectives and past empirical findings of teenage sexuality as a developmental asset versus risk.     

Sexuality,femininity and fertility control

Fertility control is not a subject to be treated in isolation, rather it must be examined within the wider context of female sexuality which is male defined and male controlled.If women are to avoid unwanted pregnancy they must actively control their own fertility, yet such control can be especially problematic for young women.In this paper the occurrence of unwanted pregnancy is investigated from the standpoint of sexual politics. It is argued that the organization of efficient contraceptive practice entails a positive view of self as controlling one's sexuality and fertility. Hence there is a basic contradiction characterizing the transition to active sexuality.The politics of heterosexual relations are power politics and, as such, the young woman finds herself in a difficult, sometimes insoluble situation.     

An honest human body : Sexuality and the continuum of resistance

Theories of resistance have informed ethnographic research over the last two decades. Researchers have been concerned to document the significance of counter-cultural acts of resistance and have highlighted intersections of class, gender and “race” within the processes of resistance. However, questions of sexuality have been largely silenced. This paper focuses on the experiences of six women who identify themselves as lesbian and attempts to assert the importance of sexuality within debates on resistance and accommodation. The experiences of these women reveal that lesbians are willing and able to use a conscious collage of bodily signifiers to resist the discourse of compulsory (hetero)sexuality. The “continuum of resistance” illuminated in this paper can encompass both the lesbian who wears her sexuality on a t-shirt and the lesbian who “passes” in a heterosexual frock.     

Law, Gender and Sexuality: The Making of a Field

The papers in the following section arose from a roundtable discussion organised by the AHRC Research Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality, titled ‘Law, Gender and Sexuality: The Making of a Field’. Participants in the roundtable were asked to reflect on the challenges confronting law, gender and sexuality (LGS) as an area of research and scholarship, and to ask what benefits, possibilities, risks and dangers accompany the establishment of a research terrain. The papers address such questions as ‘what is a field and how is it made?’; ‘has LGS attained the status of a field?’; ‘what does it mean to locate oneself within the field of LGS?’; and ‘what is the relationship between feminism and LGS?’. They also consider possible future directions for the field of LGS. Together, the papers provide a variety of differing, and sometimes conflicting, perspectives on the developing body of intellectual and political activity that might be labelled ‘law, gender and sexuality’.     

“后雇员社会”工作的认知转向：解构与重构

随着自由工作者的大量涌现，传统的雇员社会正逐渐消失，雇员制下的工作结构也随之被颠覆 和瓦解，个体和组织对工作的理解不断更迭。本研究以工业时代为起点，通过解构工作空间、工作伦理、工作方式、 工作关系的历史变迁与认知转向，重构了后雇员社会下工作的应有理解与定义：工作空间从过去的实体化向虚 拟化转向，实体办公空间的“场所效力”由单一的雇主导向、工作需要导向，向员工需求和企业文化导向转移。 工作意义被赋予了多元表达，从侧重外在价值到关注内在，从“利己”到“利他”。传统以固定岗位和科层管 理为特征的人力资源管理制度正在让位于以任务分解、灵活雇用为导向的工作管理方案，员工更多地与企业形 成了一种联盟关系，未来的企业人员管理将以“引领工作”和“激活工作者”为使命。