Ralph Sandland
Biographic Data
| ID | 4092235 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ralph Sandland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ralph |
| FAMILY NAME | Sandland |
| SIGNATURE | SANDLAND R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Construction of Gender and Sexuality in the Approach of Key International Law Actors to the Circumcision of Children
This article analyses the approach of key international actors to the circumcision of children, seeking, first, to understand why the policy towards the circumcision or genital cutting of girls is so different from that towards boys. As part of this project, the article considers the literature on the situation in international law, concluding that the legal position is unclear and debatable. The article notes, however, that the policy difference…
A Clash of Conventions? Participation, Power and the Rights of Disabled Children
This article considers the neglected topic of the relationship between the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, with regard to the participation rights of disabled children. It analyses key articles in both conventions and considers relevant general comments from both convention committees (the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disab…
Concubitu Prohibere Vago
This paper interrogates Michel Foucault’s claim, that the spread of psychiatric power originated in concerns around the educatability of idiot children in the latter decades of the nineteenth century, before being applied to adult “defectives”. It is argued that Foucault, although partially correct, fails adequately to consider the extent to which the base concept, of “instinct”, was linked in particular ways to female idiot sexuality. The paper …
Sex and Capacity
The first consideration by a civil court of the test of capacity to engage in sexual relations – X City Council v MB , NB and MAB – is as recent as 2005. This article places this and subsequent cases in the historical context of the way in which the law has constructed the sexuality of persons with intellectual impairment. The article argues that, beginning with a series of rape cases in the mid to late nineteenth century, which recognised the co…
Making Monsters
This article addresses the use of the polygraph, penile plethysmograph, and other practices for the management of sexual offenders as part of the ‘Containment Approach’, a strategy increasingly common in the United States which is, in part, being trialled in the United Kingdom. The polygraph has a tangled history with abnormal sexuality, as we describe in the context of homosexuality in the 1960s. We examine how these strategies target sex offend…
Poetic Justice
Running To Stand Still
Feminism and the Gender Recognition Act 2004
Crossing and Not Crossing
Not `Social Justice
The mirror and the veil
Seeing Double ? or, Why 'To Be or Not To Be' Is (Not) the Question for Feminist Legal Studies
In this paper I explore the relation between feminism, deconstruction and ethical lawyering. It is argued, first, that a certain feminist critique of 'essentialism' points to the practical inevitability of the need to endorse categories of gender, etc. but, second, that a knowledge of the inherent deconstructability of these categories means that their use should be strategic; that is, as a mechanism through which to illuminate the beyondness whi…
The First Feminist Legal Studies Forum
The Real, the Simulacrum, and the Construction of 'Gypsy' in Law
When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full significance. There is a proliferation of myths of origins and signs of reality; of second-hand truth, objectivity and authenticity. There is an escalation of the true; of the lived experience; a resurrection of the figurative where the object and the substance have disappeared. And there is a panic-stricken production of the real and the referential
Between ?truth? and ?difference
Problems in the criminal law of adoption
How the criminal sanctions which are currently contained in ss. 11 and 57 of the Adoption Act 1976 should properly be interpreted and applied is a matter which has consistently eluded authoritative judicial definition. The impending reform of adoption law presents an opportunity to clarify the scope, definition, and effects of a breach of these provisions. This article (1) argues that the Review of Adoption Law and the White Paper Adoption: the F…
Adoption, law and homosexuality
In the light of the view expressed in the recently published Review of Adoption Law that there should be no absolute prohibition on adoption by homosexual persons, this article explores the law as it relates to homosexual persons who wish to adopt a child. It is argued that, although the more recent caselaw concerning homosexual parenting evinces a less overtly moralistic tone than was hitherto the case, the law still relies too heavily on precon…
Feminism and the Gender Recognition Act 2004
Between ?truth? and ?difference
Crossing and Not Crossing
Making Monsters
This article addresses the use of the polygraph, penile plethysmograph, and other practices for the management of sexual offenders as part of the ‘Containment Approach’, a strategy increasingly common in the United States which is, in part, being trialled in the United Kingdom. The polygraph has a tangled history with abnormal sexuality, as we describe in the context of homosexuality in the 1960s. We examine how these strategies target sex offend…
Not `Social Justice
Seeing Double ? or, Why 'To Be or Not To Be' Is (Not) the Question for Feminist Legal Studies
In this paper I explore the relation between feminism, deconstruction and ethical lawyering. It is argued, first, that a certain feminist critique of 'essentialism' points to the practical inevitability of the need to endorse categories of gender, etc. but, second, that a knowledge of the inherent deconstructability of these categories means that their use should be strategic; that is, as a mechanism through which to illuminate the beyondness whi…
The Real, the Simulacrum, and the Construction of 'Gypsy' in Law
When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full significance. There is a proliferation of myths of origins and signs of reality; of second-hand truth, objectivity and authenticity. There is an escalation of the true; of the lived experience; a resurrection of the figurative where the object and the substance have disappeared. And there is a panic-stricken production of the real and the referential
Running To Stand Still
The Construction of Gender and Sexuality in the Approach of Key International Law Actors to the Circumcision of Children
This article analyses the approach of key international actors to the circumcision of children, seeking, first, to understand why the policy towards the circumcision or genital cutting of girls is so different from that towards boys. As part of this project, the article considers the literature on the situation in international law, concluding that the legal position is unclear and debatable. The article notes, however, that the policy difference…
A Clash of Conventions? Participation, Power and the Rights of Disabled Children
This article considers the neglected topic of the relationship between the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, with regard to the participation rights of disabled children. It analyses key articles in both conventions and considers relevant general comments from both convention committees (the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disab…
Concubitu Prohibere Vago
This paper interrogates Michel Foucault’s claim, that the spread of psychiatric power originated in concerns around the educatability of idiot children in the latter decades of the nineteenth century, before being applied to adult “defectives”. It is argued that Foucault, although partially correct, fails adequately to consider the extent to which the base concept, of “instinct”, was linked in particular ways to female idiot sexuality. The paper …
The mirror and the veil
Adoption, law and homosexuality
In the light of the view expressed in the recently published Review of Adoption Law that there should be no absolute prohibition on adoption by homosexual persons, this article explores the law as it relates to homosexual persons who wish to adopt a child. It is argued that, although the more recent caselaw concerning homosexual parenting evinces a less overtly moralistic tone than was hitherto the case, the law still relies too heavily on precon…
Adoption, law and homosexuality
In the light of the view expressed in the recently published Review of Adoption Law that there should be no absolute prohibition on adoption by homosexual persons, this article explores the law as it relates to homosexual persons who wish to adopt a child. It is argued that, although the more recent caselaw concerning homosexual parenting evinces a less overtly moralistic tone than was hitherto the case, the law still relies too heavily on precon…
Between ?truth? and ?difference
Problems in the criminal law of adoption
How the criminal sanctions which are currently contained in ss. 11 and 57 of the Adoption Act 1976 should properly be interpreted and applied is a matter which has consistently eluded authoritative judicial definition. The impending reform of adoption law presents an opportunity to clarify the scope, definition, and effects of a breach of these provisions. This article (1) argues that the Review of Adoption Law and the White Paper Adoption: the F…
The First Feminist Legal Studies Forum
The Real, the Simulacrum, and the Construction of 'Gypsy' in Law
When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full significance. There is a proliferation of myths of origins and signs of reality; of second-hand truth, objectivity and authenticity. There is an escalation of the true; of the lived experience; a resurrection of the figurative where the object and the substance have disappeared. And there is a panic-stricken production of the real and the referential
The mirror and the veil
Seeing Double ? or, Why 'To Be or Not To Be' Is (Not) the Question for Feminist Legal Studies
In this paper I explore the relation between feminism, deconstruction and ethical lawyering. It is argued, first, that a certain feminist critique of 'essentialism' points to the practical inevitability of the need to endorse categories of gender, etc. but, second, that a knowledge of the inherent deconstructability of these categories means that their use should be strategic; that is, as a mechanism through which to illuminate the beyondness whi…
Not `Social Justice
Crossing and Not Crossing
Feminism and the Gender Recognition Act 2004
Poetic Justice
Running To Stand Still
Making Monsters
This article addresses the use of the polygraph, penile plethysmograph, and other practices for the management of sexual offenders as part of the ‘Containment Approach’, a strategy increasingly common in the United States which is, in part, being trialled in the United Kingdom. The polygraph has a tangled history with abnormal sexuality, as we describe in the context of homosexuality in the 1960s. We examine how these strategies target sex offend…
Concubitu Prohibere Vago
This paper interrogates Michel Foucault’s claim, that the spread of psychiatric power originated in concerns around the educatability of idiot children in the latter decades of the nineteenth century, before being applied to adult “defectives”. It is argued that Foucault, although partially correct, fails adequately to consider the extent to which the base concept, of “instinct”, was linked in particular ways to female idiot sexuality. The paper …
Sex and Capacity
The first consideration by a civil court of the test of capacity to engage in sexual relations – X City Council v MB , NB and MAB – is as recent as 2005. This article places this and subsequent cases in the historical context of the way in which the law has constructed the sexuality of persons with intellectual impairment. The article argues that, beginning with a series of rape cases in the mid to late nineteenth century, which recognised the co…
A Clash of Conventions? Participation, Power and the Rights of Disabled Children
This article considers the neglected topic of the relationship between the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, with regard to the participation rights of disabled children. It analyses key articles in both conventions and considers relevant general comments from both convention committees (the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disab…
The Construction of Gender and Sexuality in the Approach of Key International Law Actors to the Circumcision of Children
This article analyses the approach of key international actors to the circumcision of children, seeking, first, to understand why the policy towards the circumcision or genital cutting of girls is so different from that towards boys. As part of this project, the article considers the literature on the situation in international law, concluding that the legal position is unclear and debatable. The article notes, however, that the policy difference…
Political science (16 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Law (13 works) · Politics (7 works) · Human rights (6 works) · International law (6 works) · Political philosophy (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works)