Susan R Burge
Biographic Data
| ID | 4391859 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan R Burge |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan R |
| FAMILY NAME | Burge |
| SIGNATURE | BURGE S R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ohio University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6752-9764 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter
Staying Tuned: LGBTQIA Politics in the Trump Era
Since Donald Trump took office in 2017, the White House has issued several clear anti-LGBTQIA signals and initiatives. Reflecting on Trump's election as U.S. president, many political scientists have analyzed his rise in the context of the literature on American political development (e.g., Skowronek 2017) and comparative governments (e.g., Levitsky and Ziblatt 2018). Some of this work has received significant media attention and attained a popul…
Beyond Marriage: Continuing Battles for LGBT Rights
Beyond Marriage: Continuing Battles for LGBT Rights." Journal of Women, Politics & Policy, 39(4), pp. 521–522
Introduction: Family, State, and Difference in Political Time
Family is a topic that has often been overlooked in political science. This oversight is based at least in part on an assumption that the public and private can clearly be distinguished, and that family belongs to the private sphere, outside of public concerns about state power. This split often has been replicated within the discipline, as state power has been seen as public and therefore a central focus of the discipline, while familial concern…
Gender and Sexuality Politics in the James Bond Film Series: Cultural Origins of Gay Inclusion in the U.S Military
How did gays in the military go from being characterized as dangerous perverts threatening the state to potential heroes fighting on behalf of the state? Numerous studies have identified various legal and political conditions that can account for resistance to this change. This article explores popular culture as a contributor to public understanding that, in turn, supported these political developments. Using the James Bond film series to track …
Rose Corrigan. Up Against a Wall: Rape Reform and the Failure of Success
Academic feminists have long regarded the reform of rape law as a central success story of the second wave. But was it? In this book, political scientist and former direct service provider Rose Corrigan offers a fascinating analysis of the success of early rape reform and its less-than-successful aftermath, based on extensive interviews that she conducted with 167 rape care advocates from 112 local rape crisis centers in urban, suburban, and rura…
Outing Courtesy: The Role of Rude Dissent in Rule of Law Systems
This essay critically examines Keith Bybee's All Judges Are Political, Except When They Are Not . Although Bybee's creative use of the cultural form of courtesy helps us better understand the consensus-building and legitimating features of rule-of-law systems, it overlooks the role that rude dissent can play in exposing the violent, exclusionary, and materially disadvantaging aspects of such systems. Using examples of outing closeted public figur…
Occupy the Social Contract! Participatory Democracy and Iceland’s Crowd-Sourced Constitution
Recent responses to the global economic crash of 2008, such as Occupy Wall Street and other political encampments, have raised important questions about the constitution of the “we” and the relationship between democracy and change in the context of contemporary capitalism. To address these important new political developments, this article argues for “participatory contract building” as a new direction in critical contract theory and participato…
YouTube on Masculinity and the Founding Fathers: Constitutionalism 2.0
While it may be tempting to dismiss the broad humor and downright inaccuracies of politically oriented YouTube videos such as Brad Neely’s animated short on George Washington, this article argues it would be a mistake. The campy exaggerations and absurd claims contained therein may offer new sources of populist resistance to dominant understandings of masculinity as played out in the relation between the founding fathers and contemporary constitu…
Demographics, Sexual Risk Behaviours and Uptake of Screening for Sexually Transmitted Infections among Attendees of a Weekly Women-only Community Clinic Program
Who’s Your Daddy? Legitimacy, Parody, and Soap Operas in Contemporary Constitutional Discourse
In this article, I explore parody as an alternative way to read contemporary constitutional discourse, providing extended examples from the work of noted constitutional theorist Ronald Dworkin and noted jurist Justice Antonin Scalia. Both Dworkin and Scalia have been widely read as seeking to defend the current legal regime in the United States, with particular emphasis placed on maintaining judicial legitimacy. I argue that such a reading of Dwo…
Sexuality and the Body Politic: Thoughts on the Construction of an Apsa Sexuality & Politics Section
One day, argues Foucault, we may wonder how “the ruses of sexuality” seduced us to academic inquiry, but that day is possible only “in a different economy of bodies and pleasures” (1976, 159). In such a very different political reality, a genealogical account of the relationship between power and sexuality might not be necessary. But at present, “our discourse, our customs, our institutions, our regulations, our knowledge” is “busy producing in t…
Queer (Theory) Eye for the Straight (Legal) Guy: Lawrence v. Texas’ Makeover of Bowers v. Hardwick
In this article, I distill the complex discourse of queer theory into four claims and then employ those claims to construct an original interpretation of the 2003 decision of Lawrence v. Texas in which the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Texas law criminalizing same-sex sodomy and overturned the 1986 case of Bowers v. Hardwick. Drawing on the queer performance in the reality television show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, I characterize Lawrence…
Did the Supreme Court Come Out inBush V. Gore? Queer Theory on the Performance of the Politics of Shame
susan burgess is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of Women's Studies at Ohio University. She is the author ofContest for Constitutional Authority: The Abortion and War Powers Debates (University Press of Kansas, 1992) and is currently completing a book entitled Who's Your Daddy? Constitutional Parody, Queer Theory, and Popular Culture
Debate: Séparation des pouvoirs et indépendance du judiciaire: une problematique en transformation
A Fine Romance: Keith Whittington's Originalism and the Drama of U.S. Constitutional Theory
Keith Whittington, Constitutional Construction: Divided Powers and Constitutional Meaning. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. ix + 303 pages. Keith Whittington, Constitutional Interpretation: Textual Meaning, Original Intent, and Judicial Review. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. xi + 299 pages. Introduction Political Scientist Keith Whittington offers his theory of the U.S. Constitution in two volumes, Constitutional Interpreta…
The Constitution in the Courts: Law or Politics? Michael J. Perry The Original Intent and the Framers of the Constitution: A Disputed Question. Harry V. Jaffa
Beyond Instrumental Politics: The New Institutionalism, Legal Rhetoric, & Judicial Supremacy
Applications of the new institutionalism to the study of public law are often grounded in rational choice assumptions. This tends to reinforce a view of law and legal rhetoric as merely instrumental tools that foster certain institutional arrangements. This article proposes an alternative application of the new institutionalism that, the author argues, offers an alternative vision of law and legal discourse which can be used both to sustain and t…
Reclaiming a Democratic Constitutional Politics: Survey Construction and Public Knowledge
It has recently been argued in this Review that public opinion research tends to favor the expert authority of elite institutions such as the courts, over the democratic authority of the people as a source of law or constitutional interpretation. In this article we introduce an alternative survey construction that allows the public to be considered as a possible source of constitutional knowledge Using this survey, we find that most respondents c…
Beyond Instrumental Politics: The New Institutionalism, Legal Rhetoric, & Judicial Supremacy
Applications of the new institutionalism to the study of public law are often grounded in rational choice assumptions. This tends to reinforce a view of law and legal rhetoric as merely instrumental tools that foster certain institutional arrangements. This article proposes an alternative application of the new institutionalism that, the author argues, offers an alternative vision of law and legal discourse which can be used both to sustain and t…
Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter
Introduction: Family, State, and Difference in Political Time
Family is a topic that has often been overlooked in political science. This oversight is based at least in part on an assumption that the public and private can clearly be distinguished, and that family belongs to the private sphere, outside of public concerns about state power. This split often has been replicated within the discipline, as state power has been seen as public and therefore a central focus of the discipline, while familial concern…
Gender and Sexuality Politics in the James Bond Film Series: Cultural Origins of Gay Inclusion in the U.S Military
How did gays in the military go from being characterized as dangerous perverts threatening the state to potential heroes fighting on behalf of the state? Numerous studies have identified various legal and political conditions that can account for resistance to this change. This article explores popular culture as a contributor to public understanding that, in turn, supported these political developments. Using the James Bond film series to track …
Occupy the Social Contract! Participatory Democracy and Iceland’s Crowd-Sourced Constitution
Recent responses to the global economic crash of 2008, such as Occupy Wall Street and other political encampments, have raised important questions about the constitution of the “we” and the relationship between democracy and change in the context of contemporary capitalism. To address these important new political developments, this article argues for “participatory contract building” as a new direction in critical contract theory and participato…
A Fine Romance: Keith Whittington's Originalism and the Drama of U.S. Constitutional Theory
Keith Whittington, Constitutional Construction: Divided Powers and Constitutional Meaning. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. ix + 303 pages. Keith Whittington, Constitutional Interpretation: Textual Meaning, Original Intent, and Judicial Review. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. xi + 299 pages. Introduction Political Scientist Keith Whittington offers his theory of the U.S. Constitution in two volumes, Constitutional Interpreta…
YouTube on Masculinity and the Founding Fathers: Constitutionalism 2.0
While it may be tempting to dismiss the broad humor and downright inaccuracies of politically oriented YouTube videos such as Brad Neely’s animated short on George Washington, this article argues it would be a mistake. The campy exaggerations and absurd claims contained therein may offer new sources of populist resistance to dominant understandings of masculinity as played out in the relation between the founding fathers and contemporary constitu…
Did the Supreme Court Come Out inBush V. Gore? Queer Theory on the Performance of the Politics of Shame
susan burgess is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of Women's Studies at Ohio University. She is the author ofContest for Constitutional Authority: The Abortion and War Powers Debates (University Press of Kansas, 1992) and is currently completing a book entitled Who's Your Daddy? Constitutional Parody, Queer Theory, and Popular Culture
Beyond Marriage: Continuing Battles for LGBT Rights
Beyond Marriage: Continuing Battles for LGBT Rights." Journal of Women, Politics & Policy, 39(4), pp. 521–522
Outing Courtesy: The Role of Rude Dissent in Rule of Law Systems
This essay critically examines Keith Bybee's All Judges Are Political, Except When They Are Not . Although Bybee's creative use of the cultural form of courtesy helps us better understand the consensus-building and legitimating features of rule-of-law systems, it overlooks the role that rude dissent can play in exposing the violent, exclusionary, and materially disadvantaging aspects of such systems. Using examples of outing closeted public figur…
Sexuality and the Body Politic: Thoughts on the Construction of an Apsa Sexuality & Politics Section
One day, argues Foucault, we may wonder how “the ruses of sexuality” seduced us to academic inquiry, but that day is possible only “in a different economy of bodies and pleasures” (1976, 159). In such a very different political reality, a genealogical account of the relationship between power and sexuality might not be necessary. But at present, “our discourse, our customs, our institutions, our regulations, our knowledge” is “busy producing in t…
Queer (Theory) Eye for the Straight (Legal) Guy: Lawrence v. Texas’ Makeover of Bowers v. Hardwick
In this article, I distill the complex discourse of queer theory into four claims and then employ those claims to construct an original interpretation of the 2003 decision of Lawrence v. Texas in which the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Texas law criminalizing same-sex sodomy and overturned the 1986 case of Bowers v. Hardwick. Drawing on the queer performance in the reality television show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, I characterize Lawrence…
Reclaiming a Democratic Constitutional Politics: Survey Construction and Public Knowledge
It has recently been argued in this Review that public opinion research tends to favor the expert authority of elite institutions such as the courts, over the democratic authority of the people as a source of law or constitutional interpretation. In this article we introduce an alternative survey construction that allows the public to be considered as a possible source of constitutional knowledge Using this survey, we find that most respondents c…
Beyond Instrumental Politics: The New Institutionalism, Legal Rhetoric, & Judicial Supremacy
Applications of the new institutionalism to the study of public law are often grounded in rational choice assumptions. This tends to reinforce a view of law and legal rhetoric as merely instrumental tools that foster certain institutional arrangements. This article proposes an alternative application of the new institutionalism that, the author argues, offers an alternative vision of law and legal discourse which can be used both to sustain and t…
The Constitution in the Courts: Law or Politics? Michael J. Perry The Original Intent and the Framers of the Constitution: A Disputed Question. Harry V. Jaffa
A Fine Romance: Keith Whittington's Originalism and the Drama of U.S. Constitutional Theory
Keith Whittington, Constitutional Construction: Divided Powers and Constitutional Meaning. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. ix + 303 pages. Keith Whittington, Constitutional Interpretation: Textual Meaning, Original Intent, and Judicial Review. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. xi + 299 pages. Introduction Political Scientist Keith Whittington offers his theory of the U.S. Constitution in two volumes, Constitutional Interpreta…
Debate: Séparation des pouvoirs et indépendance du judiciaire: une problematique en transformation
Did the Supreme Court Come Out inBush V. Gore? Queer Theory on the Performance of the Politics of Shame
susan burgess is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of Women's Studies at Ohio University. She is the author ofContest for Constitutional Authority: The Abortion and War Powers Debates (University Press of Kansas, 1992) and is currently completing a book entitled Who's Your Daddy? Constitutional Parody, Queer Theory, and Popular Culture
Queer (Theory) Eye for the Straight (Legal) Guy: Lawrence v. Texas’ Makeover of Bowers v. Hardwick
In this article, I distill the complex discourse of queer theory into four claims and then employ those claims to construct an original interpretation of the 2003 decision of Lawrence v. Texas in which the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Texas law criminalizing same-sex sodomy and overturned the 1986 case of Bowers v. Hardwick. Drawing on the queer performance in the reality television show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, I characterize Lawrence…
Who’s Your Daddy? Legitimacy, Parody, and Soap Operas in Contemporary Constitutional Discourse
In this article, I explore parody as an alternative way to read contemporary constitutional discourse, providing extended examples from the work of noted constitutional theorist Ronald Dworkin and noted jurist Justice Antonin Scalia. Both Dworkin and Scalia have been widely read as seeking to defend the current legal regime in the United States, with particular emphasis placed on maintaining judicial legitimacy. I argue that such a reading of Dwo…
Sexuality and the Body Politic: Thoughts on the Construction of an Apsa Sexuality & Politics Section
One day, argues Foucault, we may wonder how “the ruses of sexuality” seduced us to academic inquiry, but that day is possible only “in a different economy of bodies and pleasures” (1976, 159). In such a very different political reality, a genealogical account of the relationship between power and sexuality might not be necessary. But at present, “our discourse, our customs, our institutions, our regulations, our knowledge” is “busy producing in t…
Demographics, Sexual Risk Behaviours and Uptake of Screening for Sexually Transmitted Infections among Attendees of a Weekly Women-only Community Clinic Program
YouTube on Masculinity and the Founding Fathers: Constitutionalism 2.0
While it may be tempting to dismiss the broad humor and downright inaccuracies of politically oriented YouTube videos such as Brad Neely’s animated short on George Washington, this article argues it would be a mistake. The campy exaggerations and absurd claims contained therein may offer new sources of populist resistance to dominant understandings of masculinity as played out in the relation between the founding fathers and contemporary constitu…
Outing Courtesy: The Role of Rude Dissent in Rule of Law Systems
This essay critically examines Keith Bybee's All Judges Are Political, Except When They Are Not . Although Bybee's creative use of the cultural form of courtesy helps us better understand the consensus-building and legitimating features of rule-of-law systems, it overlooks the role that rude dissent can play in exposing the violent, exclusionary, and materially disadvantaging aspects of such systems. Using examples of outing closeted public figur…
Occupy the Social Contract! Participatory Democracy and Iceland’s Crowd-Sourced Constitution
Recent responses to the global economic crash of 2008, such as Occupy Wall Street and other political encampments, have raised important questions about the constitution of the “we” and the relationship between democracy and change in the context of contemporary capitalism. To address these important new political developments, this article argues for “participatory contract building” as a new direction in critical contract theory and participato…
Rose Corrigan. Up Against a Wall: Rape Reform and the Failure of Success
Academic feminists have long regarded the reform of rape law as a central success story of the second wave. But was it? In this book, political scientist and former direct service provider Rose Corrigan offers a fascinating analysis of the success of early rape reform and its less-than-successful aftermath, based on extensive interviews that she conducted with 167 rape care advocates from 112 local rape crisis centers in urban, suburban, and rura…
Gender and Sexuality Politics in the James Bond Film Series: Cultural Origins of Gay Inclusion in the U.S Military
How did gays in the military go from being characterized as dangerous perverts threatening the state to potential heroes fighting on behalf of the state? Numerous studies have identified various legal and political conditions that can account for resistance to this change. This article explores popular culture as a contributor to public understanding that, in turn, supported these political developments. Using the James Bond film series to track …
Introduction: Family, State, and Difference in Political Time
Family is a topic that has often been overlooked in political science. This oversight is based at least in part on an assumption that the public and private can clearly be distinguished, and that family belongs to the private sphere, outside of public concerns about state power. This split often has been replicated within the discipline, as state power has been seen as public and therefore a central focus of the discipline, while familial concern…
Staying Tuned: LGBTQIA Politics in the Trump Era
Since Donald Trump took office in 2017, the White House has issued several clear anti-LGBTQIA signals and initiatives. Reflecting on Trump's election as U.S. president, many political scientists have analyzed his rise in the context of the literature on American political development (e.g., Skowronek 2017) and comparative governments (e.g., Levitsky and Ziblatt 2018). Some of this work has received significant media attention and attained a popul…
Beyond Marriage: Continuing Battles for LGBT Rights
Beyond Marriage: Continuing Battles for LGBT Rights." Journal of Women, Politics & Policy, 39(4), pp. 521–522
Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter
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