Reviews for Legal Status of Sportsmen and Sportswomen Under International, Europeanand Belgian National ...

The average rating for Legal Status of Sportsmen and Sportswomen Under International, Europeanand Belgian National ... based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-04-22 00:00:00 Chris Bowman read this after I saw her piece about it in issue 42 of sinister wisdom and I appreciated it a lot more bc of the context she included in it, I wish at least some of it was included here in an intro or something! She wrote this before anyone else had tried to develop a specifically lesbian view of the law! Lots of really cool points and info on the legal history of lesbianism that were totally new to me even though this was published in 1992. She’s big into her ideals but also very practical. Like a lot of lesfem work it feels like this book opens a super important line of thinking that’s still super relevant and deserves further attention

Review # 2 was written on 2008-09-20 00:00:00 Russell Johnston extremely dated, the history section on the erasure of women's punishment for sexual deviance is the best chapter (and draws heavily from other historians), he position that (lesbians in particular, people in general) can use and be used by the law feels non-committal in dealing with legal issues because everytime she brings up a good point *against* the rule of law she immediately points out "well the law can do this *positive thing*." If you do legal theory and GLBT/Queer Studies this is worth a read although its pre-Lawrence v. Texas so there is that issue...